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

While some of the American aviators had received wounds in recent engagements there had been no chair vacant for some little time now; and hence no gloom rested on the escadrille.

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