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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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