Author : Roger Gene Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:300009510
Like a Thunderbolt
Roger Gene Miller
Like A Thunderbolt The Lafayette Escadrille And The Advent Of American Pursuit In World War I Illustrated Edition
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Like A Thunderbolt: The Lafayette Escadrille And The Advent Of American Pursuit In World War I [Illustrated Edition]
Roger G. Miller
Author : Roger G. Miller
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786252470
Like A Thunderbolt: The Lafayette Escadrille And The Advent Of American Pursuit In World War I [Illustrated Edition] by Roger G. Miller Pdf
Includes 29 Illustrations The advent of an American squadron, or “escadrille,” within the French air force, the Service Aeronautique, had been far from a simple process. French leaders initially held the belief, common at the time, that the war begun in 1914 would be a short one. The potential value of American volunteers fighting for France both for propaganda purposes and for helping bring the power of the New World into the war on the side of the Allies was thus irrelevant at first. By early 1915, however, the French began to accept American volunteers and assign them to escadrilles. In early 1916, the Service Aeronautique united several of these men in an elite chasse unit, which quickly earned an enviable reputation for audacity, bravery, and élan. Success of this unit, the Lafayette Escadrille, had three consequences. First, its existence encouraged a large number of Americans, far more than needed in one escadrille, to volunteer for French aviation. These individuals, identified unofficially as members of a “Lafayette Flying Corps,” served in numerous French air units. Second, the publicity surrounding the Lafayette Escadrille contributed favorable press for the Allied cause, strengthened ties between France and the U.S., and ultimately helped prepare the U.S. to participate on the Allied side of the conflict. Third, the existence of a large body of experienced American pilots provided combat veterans for the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France when the U.S. ultimately entered the war. These veterans helped instill in the U.S. Air Service the attitudes and practices of the Service Aeronautique, an infusion especially reflected in two U.S. pursuit squadrons, the 103rd Aero Squadron, made up of Lafayette Escadrille pilots, and the 94th Aero Squadron, the most famous American combat squadron of the war.
Like a Thunderbolt: the Lafayette Escadrille and the Advent of American Pursuit in World War I
Roger Miller,Air Force Museums Program
Author : Roger Miller,Air Force Museums Program
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1477626794
Like a Thunderbolt: the Lafayette Escadrille and the Advent of American Pursuit in World War I by Roger Miller,Air Force Museums Program Pdf
On the morning of May 18, 1916, a German LVG appeared in the sky over Thann in the Vosges region, near the ancient French city of Nancy. The LVG was a well-armed, two-seat observation airplane and the Vosges a quiet sector of the Western Front, in stark contrast to the merciless slaughter taking place to the north at Verdun. Normally the two airmen could expect to do their reconnaissance with little interruption, but on this day they had left luck behind. A speck appeared in the sky to the west and rapidly grew into an enemy pursuit aircraft, an avion de chasse, an agile, single-seat Nieuport. The Germans, busy at their trade, failed to see the enemy draw near. A veteran hunter or more cautious pilot might have seized the opportunity to surprise the LVG and launch an attack out of the sun or from behind a cloud, but this one approached directly, without guile. Suddenly aware of the danger, the observer seized his machine gun and began firing while the pilot turned the airplane toward the safety of the German lines. The chasse pilot closed to point blank range and, just as a collision appeared imminent, fired a quick burst, then swerved away. The encounter was over that quickly. Both the observer and pilot collapsed; the LVG rolled and plunged to earth; the Nieuport banked away leaving a plume of smoke to mark the scene of combat. French troops witnessed the brief fight and by the time the Nieuport reached its field at Luxeuil-les-Bains had confirmed the kill. It was an auspicious event. Everything about the victorious aircraft said "France" except the pilot's name. Kiffen Yates Rockwell was an American citizen assigned to Escadrille N 124, known unofficially as l'Escadrille Americaine, and his victory was the unit's first. It was quick and impressive by contemporary standards of air combat. Rockwell had engaged at incredibly close range, almost sticking his gun into the enemy cockpit, but his daring attack allowed the LVG's observer to put a hole in the Nieuport's top wing main spar. Rockwell, in turn, killed the two men with only four bullets, a marvelous feat of marksmanship. Cheering comrades lifted him from the cockpit and began a wild celebration. Atradition began with N 124's first victory. Rockwell's brother Paul, serving elsewhere in the French Army, provided a bottle of eighty-year-old bourbon. Kiffen Rockwell took the first drink, but the Escadrille set aside the rest. From then on, credit for downing an enemy aircraft earned the victorious pilot a shot from "The Bottle of Death."
Like a Thunderbolt
Roger Gene Miller
Author : Roger Gene Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015075629603
Like a Thunderbolt by Roger Gene Miller Pdf
Like a Thunderbolt
Office of Air Force History,United States Air Force
Author : Office of Air Force History,United States Air Force
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1508600309
Like a Thunderbolt by Office of Air Force History,United States Air Force Pdf
The advent of an American squadron, or “escadrille,” within the French air force, the Service Aéronautique, had been far from a simple process. French leaders initially held the belief, common at the time, that the war begun in 1914 would be a short one. The potential value of American volunteers fighting for France both for propaganda purposes and for helping bring the power of the New World into the war on the side of the Allies was thus irrelevant at first. By early 1915, however, the French began to accept American volunteers and assign them toescadrilles. In early 1916, the Service Aéronautique united several of these men in an elite chasse unit, which quickly earned an enviable reputation for audacity, bravery, and élan.Success of this unit, the Lafayette Escadrille, had three consequences. First, its existence encouraged a large number of Americans, far more than needed in one escadrille, to volunteer for French aviation. These individuals, identified unofficially as members of a “Lafayette Flying Corps,” served in numerous French air units. Second, the publicity surrounding the Lafayette Escadrille contributed favorable press for the Allied cause, strengthened ties between France and the U.S., and ultimately helped prepare the U.S. to participate on the Allied side of the conflict. Third, the existence of a large body of experienced American pilots provided combat veterans for the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France when the U.S. ultimately entered the war. These veterans helped instill in the U.S. Air Service the attitudes and practices of the Service Aéronautique, an infusion especially reflected in two U.S. pursuit squadrons, the 103rd Aero Squadron, made up of Lafayette Escadrille pilots, and the 94th AeroSquadron, the most famous American combat squadron of the war. Further, this body of veterans influenced all U.S. pursuit units as Lafayette personnel spread throughout the Air Service.This was not the whole story, though. In early 1918, two pursuit units, the 27th and 147th Aero Squadrons, joined with the 94th and 95th Aero Squadrons to form the 1st Pursuit Group, the U.S. Air Service's first and most famous combat groupand forerunner of the U.S. Air Force's present-day wings. These, however, were British-trained squadrons commanded by Royal Flying Corps (RFC) veterans, and they contributed a British ethos to the American pursuit force, an ethos characterized by emphasis on the offensive at all hazards. Finally, and perhaps most important,the U.S. Army officers who created and commanded the U.S. Air Service had their own shared identity and sense of professionalism, that of the regular U.S. Army and of the Military Academy at West Point.By late 1918, the Air Service in France had begun to develop its own leaders who, whether imbued with the attributes of the French, British, or American systems, or a combination thereof, brought their own standards and practices toAmerican pursuit. Perhaps no one epitomized this contribution more than the eventual U.S. ace-of aces, Edward V. “Eddie” Rickenbacker. The final result in the early 1920s was a distinctly American fighter force with a special sense of identity.
The Writers Directory
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943230
The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf
Air Trails Pictorial
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015308203
Air Trails Pictorial by Anonim Pdf
The Lafayette Flying Corps
Dennis Gordon
Author : Dennis Gordon
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89082440405
The Lafayette Flying Corps by Dennis Gordon Pdf
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.
The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille
Georges Thenault
Author : Georges Thenault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519085745
The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille by Georges Thenault Pdf
In April 1916, the creation of the American escadrille was decided. During the next twenty-one months this aviation squadron was to be seen over every important battlefield, with its men fighting and dying for France. George Thenault's fascinating history of the Lafayette Escadrille covers from its very inception to the end of the war. Many Americans living in France at the outbreak of war in 1914 wanted to fight for the country that they saw as the founder of Liberty, and some of those men were pilots. But with the French army only having 80 planes the Americans were initially rejected from joining the air force and instead had to sign up with the Foreign Legion. It was only after months of persuasion that some of these intrepid Americans were given control of France's planes and later, under Thenault's command, they developed their own squadron. They were immediately thrown into the thick of the fighting above the pockmarked land of the Western Front. Thenault provides vivid descriptions of his brave pilots which included Norman Prince, the Rockwell brothers and the ace Raoul Lufbery. Some of these pilots were rather eccentric, for example William Thaw who when in Paris bought two lions, named Whiskey and Soda, which became the escadrille's mascots. Flying their Nieuports, they were fighting at the very beginning of military aviation and were instrumental in pioneering new battle techniques. Their life expectancy was not long and many who had joined at the inception of the escadrille did not make it through until the end of the war. Thenault's extremely personal account covers all aspects of this squadron in World War One, from their activities on the ground to their dogfights in the air. It is a truly remarkable read. Eventually with the United States joining the war the Lafayette Escadrille was disbanded and a number of its members were inducted into the U.S. Air Service as members of 103 Aero Squadron. George Thenault's The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille was published in 1921. His book gained widespread American public recognition. In May 1922, he accepted an assignment that began an eleven year diplomatic service in the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1933 following successful completion of duties as Military Attache for Aeronautics at the French Embassy in Washington DC, he returned to France and continued his military services with the French Air Army. He died in 1948.
I Flew With the Lafayette Escadrille
Edwin C. Parsons
Author : Edwin C. Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 195168236X
I Flew With the Lafayette Escadrille by Edwin C. Parsons Pdf
I Flew with the Lafayette Escadrille, first published in 1937 as The Great Adventure and re-issued under the new title in 1963, is the classic account of young aviators fighting for France in World War I. Author Edwin Parsons would continue to serve his country, retiring as a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy. Included are 64 pages of illustrations.
Lafayette Escadrille: America's Most Famous Squadron
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : NFI
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Lafayette Escadrille: America's Most Famous Squadron by Anonim Pdf
The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille
Georges Thenault
Author : Georges Thenault
Publisher : Tales End Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 110570386X
The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille by Georges Thenault Pdf
The Lafayette Flying Corps
James Norman Hall,Charles Nordhoff
Author : James Norman Hall,Charles Nordhoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UCAL:B4028219
The Lafayette Flying Corps by James Norman Hall,Charles Nordhoff Pdf
STORY OF THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE
GEORGES. THENAULT
Author : GEORGES. THENAULT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033149152
STORY OF THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE by GEORGES. THENAULT Pdf
An American for Lafayette
Edmond Charles Clinton Genet
Author : Edmond Charles Clinton Genet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015021967842
An American for Lafayette by Edmond Charles Clinton Genet Pdf
"The diaries and flight log of Edmond C.C. Genet contain the only known daily record of an American's service with the French Air Service and the Lafayette Escadrille in 1915-17. They give us an intimate and engrossing picture of life at the front during the period before the United States entered the First World War"--Jacket.
