Air Service, United States Army Captain Gorman DeFreest Larner (July 5, 1897 – May 20, 1984) was a World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.

[1] Larner was too young to join U. S. aviation, so he dropped out of Columbia University and began pilot's training at the private Curtiss Flying School in Buffalo, New York.

[2] He used his Spad to down two enemy planes a week apart, on 18 and 25 March 1918; the latter victory was shared with Frank Hunter.

[1] Larner returned to service during World War II, rising to the rank of Colonel in the United States Army Air Corps Reserve.

Lieutenant Larner attacked an enemy patrol of six machines (Fokker type), and fought against the great odds until he had destroyed one and forced the others to retire.