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Dr. Edmund Gros Kiffin Rockwell, Capt. Georges Thenault, Norman Prince, Lt. Alfred de Laage de Meux, Elliot Cowdin, Bert Hall, James McConnell and Victor Chapman (left to right) The mascots of the Lafayette Escadrille were the two lion cubs Whiskey and Soda Edmond Charles Clinton Genet was the first American to die after America entered the war against Germany.
Thomas Moses Hewitt, Jr. (Lafayette Escadrille) Leslie Matheson Hickson; Dudley Lawrence Hill (Lafayette Escadrille) Edward Foote Hinkle (Lafayette Escadrille) Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. (1900–1944), star professional polo player, later assistant air attaché to the US Embassy in Great Britain during World War II; Warren Tucker Hobbs (died in service)
The Escadrille Américaine (Escadrille N.124) was authorized by the French Air Department on March 21, 1916. Paul Rockwell became a publicist for the fledgling Lafayette Escadrille. On May 18, 1916, Rockwell, flying a Nieuport , attacked and shot down a German aircraft, a two-man observation plane, over the Alsace battlefield despite having ...
Lafayette Escadrille (originally titled C'est la Guerre) is a 1958 American war film produced by Warner Bros. It stars Tab Hunter and Etchika Choureau and features David Janssen and Will Hutchins, as well as Clint Eastwood, in an early supporting role. It was the final film in the career of director William A. Wellman and is based on his ...
William Thaw II, right arm in a cast, member of the Lafayette Escadrille stands in front of a Nieuport XVI Lieutenant Colonel William Thaw II ( ( 1893-08-12 ) 12 August 1893 – ( 1934-04-22 ) 22 April 1934) was an American combat aviator who served in World War I and became a flying ace .
Lieutenant Colonel [a] Georges Thenault (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ təno]) (15 December 1887 – 19 December 1948) was the commander of the Lafayette Escadrille – the famed branch of the French air force in World War I composed of American volunteer pilots.
Elliott Christopher Cowdin (March 3, 1886 - January 6, 1933) was a member of the Lafayette Escadrille who downed three German planes. [1] He was born in Queens, New York City to John Elliot Cowdin and Gertrude Cheever. He died on January 6, 1933, in Palm Beach, Florida. [1]
The 103d was largely composed of former members of the French Air Service Lafayette Escadrille (from the French Escadrille de Lafayette). This was a squadron of American volunteer pilots who had joined the French Air Service prior to the United States entry into the war on 6 April 1917. [3]