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

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

It was of course in the villa placed at the disposal of the escadrille, many miles back of the first line of trenches.

From Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines The German Spy's Secret by Beach, Charles Amory