ISOB Rhinelander
Details:
In the right center of the cemetery under a group of trees. Isolated Burial
A granite inscribed monument-like headstone about 6 feet high.
The ISOB is 1LT Philip Rhinelander , a pilot of the 20th Aero Squadron, 1st Bombardment group who was shot down along with LT Harry Preston on September 26, 1918 in the skies above Murville on the first day of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
These two U.S. airmen were shot by the German Richthofen Squadron during the great Argonne offensive. While they were providing cover fire for the rest of their squadron's retreat, Rhinelander and Preston's DH4 bombing plane was cut off by 5 enemy planes, who shot them down. They both died in the plane crash in Murville.
Rhinelander and Preston are remembered on the town war memorial next to the church
Monument Text:
UNDER THE SEAL OF WW1 US ARMY AIR SERVICE
PHILIP NEWBOLD RHINELANDER
FIRST LIEUTENANT - PILOT
TWENTIETH AERO SQUADRON
FIRST BOMBARDMENT GROUP
UNITED STATES ARMY
BORN ON AUGUST 29,1898
KILLED IN ACTION OVER MURVILLE
SEPTEMBER 26, 1918
QUI ANTE DIEM PERIIT
SED MILES SED PRO PATRIA
Translation: He who died so far from home, died before his time: but he was a soldier, and it was for his country he died.
Commemorates:
People:
Philip Newbold 'Phil' Rhinelander
Units:
1st Bombardment Group
20th Aero Squadron
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
American Field Service
US Army Air Service
Wars:
WWI
Battles:
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
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