escadrille
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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
“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
Despite the noise, the conversation was overheard by several escadrille members.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the sky an escadrille of French planes had appeared and the three German specks had vanished, followed by a trail of little puffs of shrapnel.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
To economize and coördinate strength, all the fighting escadrilles at Verdun were grouped under the sole command of Major de Rose.
From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill
He asked for and obtained a rapid concentration of all the available escadrilles, and demanded of them vigorous offensive tactics.
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
But these airplanes, while doing this special work, must be protected by patrolling 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
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