Pancho Villa Expedition, Gorrell and Dargue, 1916

Entitled: Edgar Staley Gorrell and Herbert Arthur Dargue standing alongside airplane at the Mexican front. Edgar Staley Gorrell (February 3, 1891 - March 5, 1945) was an American military officer, aviation pioneer, historian, manufacturing entrepreneur, and advocate for the airline industry. Herbert Arthur Bert Dargue (November 17, 1886 - December 12, 1941) was a career officer in the United States Army, reaching the rank of major general in the Army Air Forces. He was a pioneer military aviator and one of the first ten recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross. The Pancho Villa Expedition was a military operation conducted by the US Army against the forces of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa from March 1916 - February 1917, during the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20. The objective of the expedition was the capture of Villa. Despite successfully locating and defeating the main body of Villa's command, responsible for the raid on Columbus, US forces were unable to achieve Wilson's stated main objective of preventing Villa's escape. No photographer credited, 1916

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