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Introduction -- Prologue -- An all-American idea takes shape -- The Escadrille Américaine is born -- First blood -- Into the grinder -- Season of discontent -- The battle continues -- The best and ...
James McConnell is long gone, but far from forgotten. McConnell, whom “The Aviator” sculpture in front of the University of Virginia’s Clemons Library honors, flew with France’s Lafayette Escadrille ...
Anyone who wants to start feeling good about war again — and hey, pilgrim, isn’t it about time? — might do well to take in Flyboys. In this elaborate, computer-generated fantasy, the plucky volunteer ...
A two-part documentary that shares the service and sacrifice of the young Americans who volunteered in a time of global crisis to defend the principles of liberty and democracy, and chronicles the ...
Bob Ford | Special to News-Press NOW The Lafayette Escadrille, a squadron of American volunteer pilots, adopted a distinctive insignia featuring an Indian warrior in full headdress. Bob Ford | Special ...