The pilot of an observation aircraft goes below 5,000 feet, loses consciousness, and the plane crashes.
P-38s shot down several enemy including heavy fighters, transports and observation aircraft.
Only two were constructed, with the second being accepted by the Navy for service as an observation aircraft.
The pursuit protectors often flew about 500 meters above the observation aircraft.
The pilots of the 103d flew a wide variety of observation aircraft for the next 18 years.
Served as a training organization for crews that changed from observation aircraft to B-25's, 1943.
It served only small observation aircraft at that time.
During the day 394 wireless messages were received from British observation aircraft, about a third resulting in immediate artillery fire.
Afterwards, they remained in service primarily as observation aircraft until the early 1940s.
The observation aircraft had a crew of three: pilot, observer and radio operator.
