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
Despite the noise, the conversation was overheard by several escadrille members.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am placed in a peculiar position in the escadrille.
From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by James R. (James Rogers) McConnell
Major de Rose ordered enemy-chasing, and electrified and inspired his escadrilles.
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
The squadrons, numbering more than 270, were divided into bombing, chasing, patrolling and field escadrilles, these last being intrusted with scouting, photographing, and artillery work, in constant touch with the infantry.
From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill
Here again, copying the French services, Germany strengthened her chasing escadrilles during the whole winter of 1916-1917, and by the following spring she possessed no less than forty.
From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill
The pursuit or battle squadrons—the escadrilles de chasse—are composed of small and very fast planes, such as the Spad and Nieuport.
From Italy at War and the Allies in the West by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
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