Follow the activities of several future members of the Lafayette Escadrille in 1914. Discover Americans’ engagement with France during the “Belle Epoque” and the activities of several future ...

The Lafayette Escadrille: The American Volunteers Who Flew For France in World War One is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV ...

On Monday, March 19, 1917, three Americans strapped into the cockpits of their single-seat biplanes on a French airfield, and embarked on a reconnaissance mission. The United States was weeks ...

Pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille whose names few Americans recognize (from left): Chouteau Johnson, Lawrence Rumsey, James McConnell, William Thaw, Raoul Lufbery, Kiffin Rockwell, Didier Masson ...

“First to Fly,” Charles Bracelen Flood’s lively account of the group of American pilots known as the Lafayette Escadrille, provides a striking counterpoint to news stories about radicalized ...

The glory of the Lafayette Escardrille will not be diminished by its transfer to the American service. Without waiting for the end of neutrality, guided by a feeling of loyalty to the just cause ...

On November 15, 2010, Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco will auction this dark grey-green canvas fuselage insignia panel from a Spad VII flown by the Lafayette Escadrille, featuring the ...

McConnell, whom “The Aviator” sculpture in front of the University of Virginia’s Clemons Library honors, flew with France’s Lafayette Escadrille in World War I, and was the last American volunteer ...

Others formed a group of heroic men that went directly to France and organized the elite flying force known as the Lafayette Escadrille. The Lafayette Escadrille and Flying Corps have been ...

the Lafayette Escadrille is a prime example of the latter. However, it’s not particularly well-known that even after the United States officially joined the war effort, some U.S. Army units ...