High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elliott White Springs, was a South Carolina businessman and an American flying ace of World War I, credited with shooting down 16 enemy aircraft. Springs was born to Col. Leroy Springs and Grace Allison White Springs. His father was a noted South Carolina textiles manufacturer. Springs attended Culver Military Academy, and then Princeton University. Springs enlisted in the United States Army in 1917. He was sent to England to train with the Royal Air Force, and was selected by the Canadian flying ace Maj. William Avery Bishop to fly the SE-5 with 85 Squadron over France. After 4 claims with 85 Squadron, and after recovering from wounds received in action on 27 June 1918, he was reassigned to the USAS's 148th Aero Squadron under the operational control of the RAF

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