LeBoutillier, Oliver Colin, 1894-1983

Oliver Colin (O.C.) “Boots” LeBoutillier was born May 24, 1894, in Montclair, New Jersey. During World War I, he served from July 1916 to April 1919 in the Royal Naval Air Service, attached to Squadrons 3, 9, and 209 on the Belgian front and the Somme. He received the British Distinguished Flying Cross. LeBoutillier served in air combat with the unit that shot down Baron Manfred von Richthofen (the “Red Baron”) on April 21, 1918. He was an eyewitness, from his own airplane above, to the Red Baron being shot down and crashing. In the 1970s, LeBoutillier settled in Las Vegas and ran a pharmaceutical distribution company. O.C. "Boots" LeBoutillier died in May 1983.

Source: Delta Mike Airfield, Inc., “Oliver Colin ‘Boots’ LeBoutillier” Biography. Davis-Monthan Aviation Field Register, last modified December 5, 2014, https://dmairfield.com/people/leboutellier_oc/