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Edmond Charles Clinton Genet was the first American flier to die in the First World War after the United States declared war against Germany, shot down by anti-aircraft artillery on April 17, 1917.
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Edmond Genet (right) with his brothers Gilbert Rodman Fox Genet (born 1889) (left) and Albert Rivers Genet Jr. (born in 1887) (centre).
Members of the legion on leave in Paris, July 7, 1915. Genet is seated in the center. Victor Chapman is right behind Genet. Chapman was the first American pilot killed in the war.
Edmond Genet on September 4, 1916. He was in the midst of his six-month training to become a fighter pilot
Genet was buried in France
Genet was reburied at the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Cemetery in 1928About this person
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United StatesStatus
deceased
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Lived 1896 to 1917 · aged 20
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