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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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  • Sniping in France

    With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers

    by H. Hesketh-Prichard ...
    Major Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer and adventurer who revolutionized the training of British Army snipers during the First World War. In this richly-detailed book, he explains his constant efforts to improve sniping standards, which finally resulted in the First Army School of Scouting, Observation and Sniping. Drawing on his experience as a big-game hunter and marksman, he ... 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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  • Black Fokker Leader

    Carl Degelow—The First World War's Last Airfighter Knight

    by Peter Kilduff ...
    This biography of the WWI fighter pilot offers "an intimate portrait of the last recipient of the 'Blue Max'" (Barrett Tillman).One of the most noteworthy German fighter pilots of World War I was Leutnant der Reserve Carl Degelow, whose squadron of mostly black Fokker D.VII fighters posed a formidable threat to some of Britain's most celebrated air units on the Western Front.Black Fokker Leader, ... Read more

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    by Alexander Macdonald ...
    The Turks, who had remained hidden in their trenches up to this point, opened fire. Men were killed where they sat in their barges. “One fellow`s brains were shot into my mouth as I was shouting for them to jump for it,” said Sergeant J. McColgan, who was shot in the leg. “I dived into the sea. Then came the job to swim with my pack and one leg useless. I managed to pull out the knife and cut the ... Read more

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  • FLYING FURY: Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps [Illustrated Edition]

    by James Thomas Byford McCudden VC DSO & Ba, MC & Bar MM ...
    Illustrated Edition – contains 30 photosThe highest scoring British Air Ace reveals his daily life at the front, in the air and in combat with the Germans above the Western Front.In the muddy trenches of the Western front few rankers would have considered that they would achieve field rank of major and international celebrity. In the skies above the shell-torn landscape, any man with enough talent ... Read more

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