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
Life in the escadrille was glamorous and deadly.
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
G�ring then was a national hero, one of Imperial Germany's greatest fighting aces, finally Commander of the late, great Baron Manfred von Richthofen's daredevil escadrille.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has no conception of the dramatic possibilities of a situation—something to be profoundly thankful for in the commander of an escadrille de chasse.
From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by Hall, James Norman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
