flying corps
Example Sentences
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They had signed on with the French flying corps, but Prince wanted a separate American aviation unit.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2016
In German, they inform us, to "get yourself Franzed", deriving from the generic name for a navigator in the imperial German flying corps during the first world war, means to become hopelessly lost.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 28, 2012
Carter has first-hand knowledge of military aviation, gained in Wartime service with the Royal Air Force; believes the U. S. should have an independent flying corps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Polio-weakened legs had rendered him "totally unfit" for the army or navy, but the new flying corps did not care too much about legs.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was a lieutenant in the flying corps during the war with Germany.
From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
