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
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
Their college had just realized a collegian's dream: a student flying corps in which they can win their military wings.
From Time Magazine Archive
All along the enemy's lines were various clumps of trees, each one of which no doubt concealed several batteries of artillery, referred to in the conversation of my friend of the flying corps.
From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister
