William C. Lambert

William Carpenter "Bill" Lambert (1894–1982) was an American fighter pilot who flew in World War I.

[2] In 1914, Lambert quit his job as a chemist in Buffalo, New York, to go enlist in the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.

24 Squadron RFC on 20 March 1918, flying the Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a, where his teacher was top scoring Irish-born ace George McElroy.

[4] Suffering from combat fatigue brought on by a bombing attack on his airfield, he was rotated back to England for medical leave on 20 August 1918[1] but the war ended before he recovered.

After World War, he was a frequent attendee at the RAF contingent's Battle of Britain celebration at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.