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Biddle, Major Charles J.,
THE WAY OF THE EAGLE:
A MEMOIR OF ESCADRILLE N.73, 103rd AERO SQUADRON (ESCADRILLE LAFAYETTE), 13th
AERO SQUADRON & 4th PURSUIT GROUP IN FRANCE.
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Chapman, Victor,
VICTOR CHAPMAN'S LETTERS FROM FRANCE [Memorial Edition].
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Chapman, Victor,
VICTOR CHAPMAN'S LETTERS FROM FRANCE.
Macmillan, May 1917., VG. First Edition. Cloth spine, paper-covered
boards, with paper labels on cover & spine. No DJ, though original
owner has neatly pasted flap of DJ with biography of Chapman to front
endpaper. Original owner's signature on front flyleaf, dated 1917.
Book very clean with virtually no wear, except spine label which is
slightly scuffed & soiled but still clearly legible. A very nice copy.
Photographs, 196 pp. 5 pp of ads at end of book.
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Gordon, Dennis,
THE LAFAYETTE FLYING CORPS: The American Volunteers in the French Air Service in World War I.
NEW copy, hardcover. 8.5x11. (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing). Over 320 b&w photographs, 504 pages.
~~~ Includes detailed biographies of the 269 volunteer American airmen and gunners of France's Service Aeronautique who flew in sity-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. Contains comprehensive research, including details of war casualties and survivors, and many unpublished photographs.
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Parsons, Edwin C.,
I FLEW WITH THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE.
VG/VG. Some soiling and slight creasing on jacket along edges (doesn't show in picture). Original $8.50 price still intact on flap. Book is bright, though head & heel of spine slightly bumped with minor tears. Interior tight & clean. (Indianapolis: E.C. Seale & Co, 1963. Reprint of the scarce 1937 edition, originally titled: The Great Adventure.
Numerous sepia-tinted photographs dispersed throughout; text in brown ink. 335 pages. Parsons first flew in 1912 with Glenn Curtis, spent a year training pilots for Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, drove ambulances on the Western Front and joined the Lafayette Escadrille in 1917. Later, he was the only American pilot who did not transfer to the American Air Service when the U.S. entered the war, but flew instead with the most famous of French squadrons, the "Storks". He was decorated with the Legion of Honor, the Medaille Militaire, the French Croix de Guerre with eight palms, and the Belgian Croix de Guerre and Order of Leopold. After the war Parsons served with the FBI, and later worked in Hollywood as a technical advisor on the films Wings and Hell's Angels." He served with the U.S. Navy in WWII, winning the Bronze Star. He retired as a Rear Admiral in 1955.
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Thenault, Captain Georges,
THE STORY OF THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE.
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$30.00
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