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
Our escadrille was listed on the schedule with the other fighting units, each of which has its specified flying hours, rotating so there is always an escadrille de chasse over the lines.
From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by McConnell, James R. (James Rogers)
