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His brother was Walter Avery of the 95th Aero whose first victory was Karl Menckhoff.

Paul Suwart Winslow served with 56 squadron 29 June to 12 September 1918 transferring to the US Army Air Service

". . . recently some have asked ‘who was Paul Winslow’. I thought the following details might be of interest.

Paul Stuart Winslow enlisted in the United States Air Service in Chicago in April 1917. He attended Aviation Ground School at the University of Illinois during the summer of 1917 and was a member of the first contingent of 52 cadets that sailed for England, arriving at Queen’s College Oxford on 4th September 1917. He soloed at Stamford and was assigned to No.40 Training Squadron at Croydon and later to No.1 Fighting School at Ayr, Scotland. Although posted to 60 Squadron with Tommy Herbert on 29th June 1918, the orders were changed en route and both pilots were assigned to 56 Squadron at Valheureux.

Winslow served with 56 Squadron until 12th September 1918 when he was posted to Issoudun as a lecturer on scout fighting, but on 25th September he managed to transfer to London as Assistant to Training Officer Capt.Geoffrey Dwyer. He sailed for the USA on 8th December 1918, arriving on the 17th and was discharged on 23 December 1918.

Picking up the threads of civilian life, Paul married Ruth Anderson in Honolulu in 1919. Mrs Winslow was the sister of Robert Alexander Anderson, one of the Oxford Cadets, who served with No.40 Squadron. ‘Andy’ was wounded and taken prisoner on 27th August 1918 and later escaped through Holland. Paul managed the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu during 1927-1928 and later worked for the Dole Pineapple Company. During WWII he ended up as Lt.Col.Commanding the 1411 Air Base of the Air Transport Command at Marignane (Marseilles) France in 1945. Paul died in Pebble Beach, California on 3rd April 1970

On a personal note: I met Paul in the sixties and he and his wife came to dinner at my house in Hertfordshire. He was a very amusing man and full of stories about his time in the RFC/RAF. I told him that one of the old 56 Sqdn pilots had told me how he would always remember Paul and Tommy Herbert for a song they sang during parties in the Mess in 1918 called the Wish Fish Song. Paul immediately sat down at my piano and with his wife Ruth played and sang the song. He didn’t know that I was a musician and as we sat down to dinner he remarked that while on embarkation leave in New York in 1917, he and his then girl friend Ruth had had dinner at Reisenwebers Restaurant and listened to the Original Dixieland Jazzband, then the talk of New York with their ‘new’ jazz. I didn’t say anything but just got up and put an LP of the ODJB on the record player. I’ll never forget their amazement and delight.

Paul had a brother, Alan F. Winslow, who served in the USAS. He served first with Escadrille N 152 then joined the US 94th Aero Squadron On July 31 1918 he was shot down and taken prisoner. Full details of Alan Winslow’s life can be found in OTF Vol 1 No.1 ‘The ordeal of Alan Winslow’."

Here is a bit of fun from Paul's own hand, uh er typwriter.