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William G. Schauffler www.earlyaviators.com/eschauff.htm

Caption from Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919): "Capt. W. C. Schauffler, Jr. (standing), and Lieut. Fred A. Tillman in observer's seat of one of Ninetieth Aero Squadron planes. Lieut. Tillman is son of late Senator Tillman. Plane shows insignia of squadron, called " Pair-a-Dice " Squadron. Gun is a double Lewis machine gun. Ninetieth Aero Squadron, Seventy- ninth Division. Bethelainville, Meuse, France. November 18, 1918. " archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n407/mode/2up

I immediately recognized the plane as a Salmson 2A2 because I built a scale model of one for our museum.

This photo reprinted in Illustrated World, May, 1919. books.google.com/books?id=Q58oAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA356&l...

He's the cheerful looking fellow nearest the camera. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) was a U.S. Senator from South Carolina, from 1895 until his death in 1918. He gained the sobriquet "Pitchfork Ben" after threatening from the Senate floor to "...poke old [President] Grover [Cleveland] with a pitchfork...." Prior to his time in the Senate, he had been Governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894. During the period after the Civil War, he had been the leader of a paramilitary group called the Red Shirts, which had terrorized and sometimes murdered Republicans and African Americans. He was an advocate of lynching. There is a statue of him outside the South Carolina Statehouse. Fairly decent biographical sketch at Wikipedia.

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"terrorized and sometimes murdered Republicans and African Americans. He was an advocate of lynching. There is a statue of him outside the South Carolina Statehouse" So in other words he's a typical Democrat

South Carolina's disgrace

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