escadrille

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

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

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

While some of the American aviators had received wounds in recent engagements there had been no chair vacant for some little time now; and hence no gloom rested on the escadrille.

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

Since then methods have changed, and the future belongs to fighting escadrilles or groups of machines.

From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill

Major de Rose ordered enemy-chasing, and electrified and inspired his escadrilles.

From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill

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 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

There were no arrangements for cooking and the Americans depended on the other escadrilles for food.

From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by James R. (James Rogers) McConnell