The Lafayette Escadrille

viii, 240 pp. The Lafayette Escadrille was a French Air Service fighter squadron formed of American volunteers and commanded by French officers. It served from 20 April 1916 to 18 February 1918. Although their service record did not impress the Germans, their exploits received widespread press coverage in the United States and fed the romanticism associated with the air war.--International Encyclopedia of the First World War