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Buffalo's Forgotten World War I Ace

By Clarence C. Picard - April 15, 2007

John Knox MacArthur shot down six enemy planes and won the Distinguished Service Cross fighting in the skies above France. Remember the daring ace from Buffalo that met his demise in the Great War.

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