named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War. In September 1917, the escadrille was transferred to the United...
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Lafayette Escadrille, also known as C'est la Guerre, Hell Bent for Glory (UK) and With You in My Arms, is a 1958 American war film produced by Warner Bros...
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the Lafayette Escadrille – the famed branch of the French air force in World War I composed of American volunteer pilots. The Lafayette Escadrille was...
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Raoul Lufbery (category Lafayette Escadrille)
group of American volunteers formed the Escadrille Américaine (shortly to be renamed N-124 Escadrille Lafayette) to aid France's war effort against the...
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World War I. It includes the pilots who flew with the bona fide Lafayette Escadrille squadron. The estimations of number of pilots range from 180 to over...
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Walter Lovell (category Lafayette Escadrille)
Captain, Lafayette Escadrille Escadrille Americaine National Museum of the US Air Force The Field Service Takes to the Air: The Lafayette Escadrille...
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Escadrille 124 may refer to one of the following French Air Force units: Escadrille N.124, more commonly known as the Lafayette Escadrille existed from...
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Edmond Genet (category Lafayette Escadrille)
trenches of eastern France. After six months of training, he joined the Lafayette Escadrille, a squadron of fighter aircraft that mostly consisted of Americans...
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97 Escadrille 98 Escadrille 99 Escadrille 100 Escadrille 102 Escadrille 103 Escadrille 112 Escadrille 124 better known as the Lafayette Escadrille Escadrille...
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Paul Pavelka (category Lafayette Escadrille)
– November 12, 1917) was an American aviator and a member of the Lafayette Escadrille. He joined the United States Navy as a sailor and served on the USS...
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forces in Afghanistan Lafayette Escadrille, a World War I squadron of the French Air Service composed largely of American pilots Lafayette Flying Corps, a name...
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N 311 Escadrille N 312 Escadrille N 387 Escadrille N 392 Escadrille N 523 Escadrille N 581 Escadrille Lafayette Group de Combat GC 11 Escadrille N 12 Escadrille...
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Flyboys (film) (category Lafayette Escadrille)
young Americans who volunteered to become fighter pilots in the Lafayette Escadrille, the 124th air squadron formed by the French in 1916. The film deals...
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N.15 Escadrille N.23 Escadrille N.26 Escadrille N.31 Escadrille N.37 Escadrille N.38 Escadrille N.48 Escadrille N.49 Escadrille N.57 Escadrille N.65 Escadrille...
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Didier Masson (category Lafayette Escadrille)
history to bomb a surface warship, as well as combat service in the Lafayette Escadrille with Edwin C. Parsons and Charles Nungesser. In one of the more unusual...
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lieutenant. He was one of the founders and second-in-command of the Lafayette Escadrille, serving under commander Georges Thenault. First serving as a cavalryman...
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1962) was an American architect and pilot. He was a member of the Lafayette Escadrille during World War I and designed the insignia for the squadron. He...
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members of the earlier Escadrille N.124, more widely known as the Lafayette Escadrille, largely transferred into the United States Air Service on 18 February...
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Force aircraft squadrons List of Escadres of the French Air Force Escadrille Lafayette Général de corps aérien Pierre Delachenal (French: Pierre Delachenal)...
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aircraft was part of "Groupe de Chasse II/5 La Fayette" (heir of the Escadrille Lafayette that fought in France during World War I), wearing the famous Sioux...
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Georges Washington de La Fayette (redirect from Georges Washington Lafayette)
1779 – 29 November 1849) was the son of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer and hero of the American Revolution, and Adrienne...
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Escadrille Spa.87 (also known as Escadrille N.87) was a French fighter squadron active during the First World War, from March 1917 to the Armistice. They...
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Elliott C. Cowdin (category Lafayette Escadrille)
Christopher Cowdin (March 3, 1886 - January 6, 1933) was a member of the Lafayette Escadrille who downed three German planes. He was born in Queens, New York City...
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serving as a recruitment source of combat pilots for the newly formed Escadrille Lafayette, one of whose prime movers, Edmund L. Gros, was the Field Service's...
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William Thaw II (category Lafayette Escadrille)
volunteers, known as the Escadrille Americaine, Escadrille 124 under its new designation became nicknamed the Lafayette Escadrille. Thaw scored his first...
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Eugene Bullard (category Lafayette Escadrille)
aviators, Bullard hoped to join the famous squadron Escadrille Americaine N.124, the Lafayette Escadrille, but after enrolling 38 American pilots in the spring...
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volunteers who fought for the ROC in the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) Lafayette Escadrille—American volunteers in the French Air Service during World War I...
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Bert Hall (category Lafayette Escadrille)
was one of America's first combat aviators, flying with the famed Lafayette Escadrille in France before the U.S. entered World War I. Hall was born near...
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squadron. The squadron inherited the traditions of the Lafayette Escadrille (French: Escadrille La Fayette) of the First World War. The group was established...
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traveled over land. Lafayette Flying Corps Walt Brown, Jr., An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genet, Lafayette Escadrille. (Charlottesville:...
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