Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun
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About This Book
The fighter pilots-their aircraft and aerial battles fighting for France These two books are brought together in a single volume by Leonaur for the first time. They concern the lives, adventures, dogfights-and sometimes violent deaths-in the skies over the battlefields of the Western Front of young Americans who found common cause with France at a time when their own nation remained neutral. Their squadron was originally entitled the Escadrille Americain, but it became the internationally renowned Lafayette Escadrille and subsequently became part of the infant American Air Force. The first boo...
Chapters (18)
- FLYING FOR FRANCE
- With the American Escadrille at Verdun
- JAMES R. McCONNELL
- Sergeant-Pilot in the French Flying Corps
- ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGH THE KINDNESS OF MR. PAUL ROCKWELL
- To MRS. ALICE S. WEEKS
- INTRODUCTION
- FLYING FOR FRANCE
- CHAPTER I
- VERDUN
- CHAPTER II
- VERDUN TO THE SOMME
- CHAPTER III
- PERSONAL LETTERS FROM SERGEANT McCONNELL--AT THE FRONT
- CHAPTER IV
- HOW FRANCE TRAINS PILOT AVIATORS
- AGAINST ODDS
- CHAPTER V
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