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Lafayette Flying Corps
Dennis Gordon
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Description for Lafayette Flying Corps
Num Pages: 504 pages, 320 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJD; HBWN; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 220 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2334.
This new book contains not only a 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This ground breaking work contains comprehensive research, including details of war casualties and survivors, and many unpublished photographs.
This new book contains not only a 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This ground breaking work contains comprehensive research, including details of war casualties and survivors, and many unpublished photographs.
Product Details
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764311086
SKU
V9780764311086
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Ref
99-2
About Dennis Gordon
Dennis Gordon is a WWI scholar. His books include Quartered in Hell: The Story of the US North Russia Expedition Force of 1918–1919, Lafayette Escadrille Pilot Biographies, and The Lafayette Flying Corps.
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