High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Russell Lowell Maughan was a pioneer aviator and U.S. military pilot. His career spanned a period in which the Air Force, then part of the U.S. Army, was known as the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps; U.S. Air Service; U.S. Army Air Corps; and U.S. Army Air Forces. Maughan was born March 28, 1893 in Logan, Utah, to Peter W. Maughan and Mary Naef Maughan. He graduated from Utah State Agricultural College in June 1917. The United States had entered World War I and Maughan enlisted in the Army. Commissioned after flight training, he served in France with the 139th Pursuit Squadron, where he was credited with four aerial victories and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on October 27, 1918, the citation for which is given below.