escadrille
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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
“I don’t think Prince minded going,” fellow escadrille pilot James R. McConnell wrote.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2016
Despite the noise, the conversation was overheard by several escadrille members.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the other members of the escadrille Sergeant Givas Lufbery, American citizen and soldier, but dweller in the world at large, was among the earliest to wear the French airman's wings.
From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by James R. (James Rogers) McConnell
The escadrilles, little by little, headed in the same direction, and Guynemer was about to leave the Sixth Army.
From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill
The fighting enemy escadrilles, with their new series of machines and their improvements, won for a few days the complete mastery of the air.
From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill
We had never before been grouped with as many other fighting escadrilles, nor at a field so near the front.
From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by James R. (James Rogers) McConnell
The airplanes are organized in escadrilles, usually composed of ten machines each, for three distinct purposes.
From Italy at War and the Allies in the West by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
The aerial fleet is sub-divided into squadrons called "escadrilles," each of which comprises six machines and pilots.
From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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