Lieutenant Robert McLaughlin was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. McLaughlin destroyed two Albatros D.Vs and chased another down out of control during May 1918; he cooperated in one of the destructions with fellow aces Hazel LeRoy Wallace, Reginald Brading, James Henry Forman, Charles Dawson Booker, Maxwell Findlay, Samuel Kinkead, and a couple of other pilots. On 8 August, he was shot down in flames; slightly singed, he flew another combat patrol that very afternoon by his own request. On 12 August, he teamed up with Ronald Sykes and another pilot to destroy a pair of Fokker D.VIIs. Then on 16 September 1918, he drove down a D.VII out of control.