escadrille

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“I don’t think Prince minded going,” fellow escadrille pilot James R. McConnell wrote.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2016

After the United States entered the conflict, the escadrille was absorbed into the American air service, and today its members are considered the godfathers of the U.S.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2016

Life in the escadrille was glamorous and deadly.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2016

World War II's escadrille is the American Eagle Squadron, quietly recruited and energized by Colonel Charles Sweeney, a U. S. soldier of fortune who fought in the Foreign Legion last time.

From Time Magazine Archive

But this is certain," said one of the leading flyers of the escadrille, seriously; "if the Boches mean to stop playing fair it's bound to demoralize the service.

From Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines The German Spy's Secret by Beach, Charles Amory