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  • The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille: Told by its Commander

    by Georges Thenault ...
    In April 1916, the creation of the American escadrille was decided.During the next twenty-one months this aviation squadron was to be seen over every important battlefield, with its men fighting and dying for France.George Thenault’s fascinating history of the Lafayette Escadrille covers from its very inception to the end of the war.Many Americans living in France at the outbreak of war in 1914 ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille

    Told by its Commander

    by Georges Thenault ...
    The Lafayette Escadrille was an escadrille of the French Air Service, the Aéronautique Militaire, during World War I composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighters. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American and French revolutions. ... Read more

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  • The Story Of The Lafayette Escadrille Told By Its Commander

    by Captain Georges Thenault ...
    "Aces over the Western FrontThe Lafayette Escadrille is now a legend of early aeronautics and warfare in the air. Originally titled the Escadrille Americaine, this squadron of the French Air Force of the Great War was formed in 1916 and as it name suggests was piloted mainly by Americans who came to the Western Front to fight the battle of the skies for the Allies out of conviction—in the hope of ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille: Told by its Commander

    by Georges Thenault ...
    The Lafayette Escadrille was an escadrille of the French Air Service, the Aéronautique Militaire, during World War I composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighters. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American and French revolutions. ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille

    by Georges Thenault, Walter Duranty ...
    The Lafayette Escadrille was a legendary fighter squadron of the French Air Service in World War I. It was founded in 1916 as the Escadrille Américaine, around a core group of brave young American pilots who had volunteered to fight for France. Their well-publicized exploits helped tip American public opinion towards joining the Great War, and have been the subject of many subsequent books and ... Read more

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    by Eddie Rickenbacker ...
    One of the best first-hand accounts of air combat in World War I, by an American “ace of aces.” Eddie Rickenbacker had an extraordinary career: inventor, race car driver, fighter ace, Medal of Honor winner, and finally president of Eastern Air Lines. In this book he recounts how he achieved 26 confirmed kills in less than a year of combat on the Western Front, rising from the ranks to lead the ... Read more

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  • September Evening

    The Life and Final Combat of the German World War One Ace: Werner Voss

    by Barry Diggens ...
    The true story of the daredevil flying ace who rivaled the Red Baron, with photos included.This is the first full-length biography of nineteen-year-old Werner Voss, a legend in his lifetime and the youngest recipient of the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest award for bravery in WWI. At the time of his death he was considered by many, friend and foe alike, to be Germany's greatest ace—and, had he ... Read more

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  • Sniping in France

    Winning the Sniping War in the Trenches

    by Major H Hesketh-Prichard ...
    Before it became a standard military tactic, and immortalised in film, the science of sniping was both untrusted and often regarded as unsportsmanlike by the military.To nostalgic British generals ardent for the cavalry charge and volley fire, the use of a crack marksman, working alone to pick off unsuspecting enemy, was just ‘not cricket’.But the Germans were not so short-sighted.By the end of ... Read more

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  • An Aviator's Field Book Being the field reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916

    by Robert Reynold Hirsch, Oswald Boelcke ...
    An unassuming book, still one of those which grip the reader from beginning to end. When the author started to write his daily impressions and adventures, it was to keep in touch with his people, to quiet those who feared for his safety every moment, and at the same time to give them a clear idea of his life. Without boasting, modestly and naturally, he describes the adventures of an aviator in ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 373 - Mammoth Books
    From yesteryear's flying aces to today's top guns...Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand accounts from all the great military campaigns of aerial warfare, including World Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. Page after exciting page of this singular collection brings into vivid play the exploits of such legendary pilots as ... Read more

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  • The Red Fighter Pilot

    by Manfred von Richthofen ...
    Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite.Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot in World War I. Manfred was the most successful fighter pilot of the war and he remains the most popular fighter pilot in history. The Red ... Read more

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  • Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight

    by Roger Gunn ...
    Ever wondered what it would be like to fly a biplane or triplane in the First World War? Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight takes you to the Western Front during the Great War. Experience the risks of combat and the many close calls Collishaw had as a pilot, flight commander, and squadron leader. Understand the courage Collishaw and his fellow flyers faced every day they took to the air in ... Read more

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