Lieutenant Harold Koch Boysen was a

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credited with five aerial victories. Boysen joined the

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in June 1917. After training, he was assigned to 66 Squadron to fly a

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. He would not have any success until the unit re-equipped with

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s and transferred fronts from France to northern Italy. He scored a victory in December 1917. In January 1918, he crashed while landing in a fog, and was injured. Upon recovery, he then scored four more times in May 1918, including one win shared with Lieutenant Christopher McEvoy.

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* ''American Aces of World War I.'' Norman Franks, Harry Dempsey. Osprey Publishing, 2001. , . 1891 births 1963 deaths American World War I flying aces Aviators from Minnesota People from Lincoln County, Minnesota {{US-mil-bio-stub

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