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The Lafayette Escadrille Volume One. Documentary film written by Dennis Gordon
and directed by Scott Gordon. Created in association with Michael Robbins. Details the history of the Lafayette Escadrille and its founding pilots from their roots in the French Foreign Legion and the American Ambulance Services to their role in the battle of Verdun. Available January, 2007.
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Lafayette Escadrille Pilot Biographies. By Dennis Gordon. Softcover, 271 pp., 223 photos. This volume is the definitive history of the Escadrille Lafayette. It contains the complete biographies of its 38 American pilots and its five French officers. Their pre-war ranks represented all walks of life: soldiers of fortune, adventurers, architects, engineers, students, playboys, polo-players, aviators. Eleven pilots were the scions of millionaires. These young American idealists first entered the war in the trenches with the Foreign Legion or behind the wheel as volunteer ambulance drivers. Fierce aerial combat awaited them over France. Some died gloriously. The survivors were changed forever by their war experience.
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The Lafayette Flying Corps. The American Volunteers in the French Air Service in World War I. By Dennis Gordon. This book contains not only the history of the legendary Lafayette Flying Corps, but also detailed biographies of the 269 volunteer American airmen and gunners of France's Service Aeronautique who flew in sixty-six pursuit and twenty-seven bomber/observation squadrons over the Western Front - also included are the thirty-eight pilots of the Escadrille Lafayette. It is an accurate and absorbing account of the lives and combat experiences of the men who later formed the nucleus of the American Expeditionary Force squadrons. This ground breaking work contains comprehensive research, including details of war casualties and survivors, and many unpublished photographs.
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