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escadrille

[es-kuh-dril, es-kuh-dril, es-ka-dree-yuh] / ˌɛs kəˈdrɪl, ˈɛs kəˌdrɪl, ɛs kaˈdri yə /
NOUN
squadron
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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

“I don’t think Prince minded going,” fellow escadrille pilot James R. McConnell wrote.

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

Of the other members of the escadrille Sergeant Givas Lufbery, American citizen and soldier, but dweller in the world at large, was among the earliest to wear the French airman's wings.

From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by McConnell, James R. (James Rogers)




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