escadrille
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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
Despite the noise, the conversation was overheard by several escadrille members.
From Time Magazine Archive
I looked for my escadrille, and saw these machines way off in the distance.
From America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell
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
For instance, it is stated that there were thirty escadrilles of Bleriot monoplanes together with pilots at the front, in addition to thirty mixed escadrilles of the other prohibited types with their fliers.
From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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
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
Meanwhile they were preparing the Somme battle; the escadrilles familiarized themselves with their ground, and new machines were tried.
From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill
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