escadrille

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First created in 1916, the Lafayette Escadrille was composed of volunteer American pilots who fought under French Capt. Georges Thenault before the United States’ official declaration of war.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2018

It was later named the Lafayette Escadrille in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer who served in the Continental Army in the American Revolution.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2016

The ambulance services expanded, newfangled airplanes offered high-risk adventure in the Lafayette Escadrille and other French flying squadrons, and the famously tough Legionnaires saw constant action.

From Reuters • Feb. 18, 2015

But like Eddie Rickenbacker's famed Hat-in-the-Ring outfit of World War I, and its forefather, the polylingual Lafayette Escadrille, A.V.G. would live as yarns told in bars, in books, in celluloid.

From Time Magazine Archive

In March, 1917, Sergeant J. R. McConnell, also a member of the Escadrille, had been killed in action.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)