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The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille Told by Its Commander, Captain
^^"'^ifSBS'mtsarKcz. J THE STORY OF THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE Portrait of the author, Captain Tlienault, coiiiniandins the Lafavette Escadriile. The Story of the LaFayette Escadrille TOLD BY ITS COMMANDER CAPTAIN GEORGES THENAULT TRANSLATED BY WALTER DURANTY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDRE TARDIEU High Commissioner of Franco-American Aflairs BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1921, By small, MAYNARD & COMPANY (incorpokated) - At i 6 To THE Memory of CHAPMAN, HOSKIER, ROCKWELL, DE LAAGE, DE Meux, PRINCE, MacMONAGLE. MacCONNELL, CAMPBELL, GENET, LUFBERY. DRESSY, MY COMPANIONS IN ARMS, A TRIBUTE OF SUPREME ADMIRATION. J177584 PREFACE My dear Captain, I accept with pleasure the task of introducing your fine book to the French and American pub- lic,—firstly because it gives me yet another op- portunity of honoring the glorious dead and the heroic living of your gallant escadrille, and sec- ondly because I wish myself to express the high esteem that I feel for you, its commander during nearly two years. You have wished to put on record, for the en- lightenment of new generations in France and America, the story of the volunteers who served under your orders and gave so noble a response to the deed of La Fayette, whom they chose as their namesake. More than a century apart, the great ancestor and your young Americans were inspired by the same passion of Liberty. It was your duty to bear witness to their exploits. You have told this story of heroism with a Vlll PREFACE sincere simplicity which recommends it not only to literary critics but to all young people who take delight in noble deeds. -
One Sunday in Picardy and the Olfactory Shift in the Literature Of
Ahern 1 One Sunday in Picardy Volume One, Creative Work Eleanor Christine Ahern The first of two volumes of a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Creative Writing Discipline of English and Creative Writing School of Humanities University of Adelaide 27 April 2016 Ahern 2 Contents Contents ................................................................................................................................. 2 Abstract .................................................................................................................................. 3 Declaration ............................................................................................................................. 4 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................ 5 Part One ................................................................................................................................. 6 Part Two ............................................................................................................................... 59 Part Three ........................................................................................................................... 181 Works Cited ....................................................................................................................... 195 Author’s Note ................................................................................................................... -
Fighter Aces
Chapter One The First Ace It is generally agreed that the title ‘ace’ applies to any fighter pilot who has destroyed five or more enemy aircraft in air to air combat. It is also generally agreed that the term originated with the French in the early part of 1915. It is not generally known, however, that the first pilot to earn this accolade was a Frenchman named Roland Garros, who was a lieutenant in the French air force. At the time he was trying out a new device which was fitted to his Morane monoplane. This was very much his own idea, and allowed him to fire a fixed machine gun through the arc of his propeller. It consisted simply of fitting deflector plates to the airscrew blades. The story is told in more detail in later paragraphs, but for the present it is only necessary to note that his success was immediate and decisive. Garros shot down five German aircraft in just over two weeks between l and 16 April 1915. This was a feat absolutely unheard of at the time, and seldom equalled since. He received the Legion of Honour, and his victories were given prominence in most of the Allied newspapers. He became a hero overnight. How the term ‘ace’ came to be applied to him and to future airmen is best told by Arch A Morane-Saulinier Type N aircraft. (AWM H04376) 1 AUSTRALIAN FIGHTER ACES Whitehouse in his book Decisive Air Battles of the First World War: Five victories in sixteen days! That was the initial harvest of Roland Garros’ front-firing guns. -
Transport of Historic Morane-Saulnier Aircraft
For immediate release Schiphol, 11 October 2018 Transport of historic Morane-Saulnier aircraft AIR FRANCE KLM MARTINAIR Cargo transported a vintage Morane- Saulnier H aircraft to Saint-Denis Roland Garros Airport on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. On 5 October, we marked a century since the death of French aviation pioneer Roland Garros (6 October 1888 – 5 October 1918), the person first to fly across the Mediterranean Sea. On 23 September 1913, Garros flew his Morane-Saulnier H from Fréjus in the south of France to Bizerte in Tunisia. Numerous events were organised from 3 to 6 October on Réunion, as the island was the place of this passionate aviator’s birth. Just a few days ago, on 5 October, the Morane-Saulnier H even took to the air over Réunion to commemorate Roland Garros. The project organisers chose AIR FRANCE KLM MARTINAIR Cargo as a reliable partner to transport the exceptional aircraft. And we treated the last surviving Morane-Saulnier with all due care and respect on one of our Boeing 777 freighters. ============================================ Company profile The Air France KLM Group is a global airline group with a strong European base. Its main areas of business are passenger transport, cargo transport and aeronautical maintenance. AIR FRANCE KLM MARTINAIR Cargo is the Air France KLM Group’s dedicated air cargo business. Our three airlines offer the industry more than 1,060 weekly frequencies to 124 destinations. In 2017, AIR FRANCE KLM MARTINAIR Cargo transported 1.1 million tonnes of cargo. In addition to the Group’s global network of passenger aircraft, we offer cargo main deck capacity on 2 Boeing 777 Freighters, 4 Boeing 747-400 Freighters and 6 Boeing 747-400 Combi aircraft. -
Fighting the Flying Circus
Fighting the Flying Circus by Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker, 1890-1973 Edited by Arch Whitehouse Published: 1965 J J J J J I I I I I Table of Contents Foreword & Chapter I … Introducing „Archie”. Chapter II … The Aerodrome. Chapter III … Our First Sorties. Chapter IV … Downing My First Hun. Chapter V … Jimmy Meissner Strips His Wings. Chapter VI … Jimmy Hall’s Last Fight. Chapter VII … New Responsibilities. Chapter VIII … A Victory and a Narrow Escape. Chapter IX … Down in Flames. Chapter X … Lufbery is Killed. Chapter XI … Squadron Festivities. Chapter XII … Jimmy Meissner Again. Chapter XIII … Americas First Ace. Chapter XIV … Rumpler Number 16. Chapter XV … Campbell’s Last Flight. Chapter XVI … Becoming an Ace. Chapter XVII … A Perplexing Bank of Fog. Chapter XVIII … Strafing the Drachen. Chapter XIX … The Chateau-Thierry Salient. Chapter XX … The Death of Quentin Roosevelt. Chapter XXI … The Flying Circus Scores Heavily. Chapter XXII … Our Spads Arrive. Chapter XXIII … Back Close to Verdun. Chapter XXIV … The Saint-Mihiel Drive. Chapter XXV … American Ace of Aces. Chapter XXVI … Captain of the Hat-in-the-Ring Squadron. Chapter XXVII … An Eventful „D” Day. Chapter XXVIII … Frank Luke Strafes His Last Balloon. Chapter XXIX … A Night Mission. Chapter XXX … A Day’s Work—Six Victories. Chapter XXXI … „Seeing the War.” Chapter XXXII … A Regular Dogfight. Chapter XXXIII … An Airplane Movie Show. Chapter XXXIV … An Overzealous Ally. Chapter XXXV … The End Draws Near. Chapter XXXVI … Last Victory of the Great War. Official Victories of the -
Lufbery's Last Flight
Lufbery's Last Flight Although he was not the highest scoring ace of the First World War, Raoul Lufbery was certainly among the most respected. As long as military aviators fly, he will be remembered as the originator of the defensive maneuver called the Lufbery Circle. He was born Gervais Raoul Lufbery on March 14, 1885 in France. His mother died when he was one year old and after that he was left with his grandparents to grow up while his father remarried and moved to the United States. Raoul went to work as a young lad and every spare bit of money he could save, he sent to his father in America, hoping that one day there would be enough money accumulated to cover his passage to America to be reunited with his father. It didn't quite work out that way. His father used the money to establish a business but even after achieving a degree of prosperity, he never attempted to send for the son he had left in France. The young Lufbery finally succeed in going to America but although he expended considerable effort to find his father, it was not to be - his father was in Europe furthering his business interests. Finally, the young Lufbery tired of waiting began his restless traveling which would continue for the rest of his life. He went to Cuba, returned to New Orleans, and wound up in San Francisco where he joined the U.S. Army. He was sent to the Philippines where he participated in the putting down of the native rebellion. -
February, 1963 Volume 34, Number 5
Februa ry, 1963 Volume 34, Number 5 The American Air Mail Society A Non-Profit Corporation Incorporated 1944 Organized 1923 Under the Laws of Ohio PRESIDENT Dr. James J. Matejka, Jr. Official Publication of the LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Illinois AMERICAN Am MAIL SOCIETY SECRETARY Ruth T. Smith Vol. 34, Number 5 Whole Number 393 102 Arbor Road Riverton, N. J. TREASURER John J. Smith 102 Arbor Road Riverton, N. J. Contents for February, 1963 VICE-PRESIDENTS Foreign Pioneer Airpost Flights Joseph L. Eisendrath Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. 1904-14 105 Herman Kleinert Lester S. Manning C.A.M. Cover Notes 110 EDITORS - Other Publications L. B. Gatchell The Airship and the Airplane 112 Geo. D. Kingdom ATTORNEY 1963 Convention Flash 113 George D. Kingdom Official Section . 114 SALES MANAGER Herman Kleinert Ecuador Pioneer Flight Cards, 215 Virginia Ave. Fullerton, Pa. October 8, 1913 ................... 118 DffiECTOR OF FOREIGN RELATIONS The Philatelic Story of Flight . 119 Dr. Max Kronstein AUCTION MANAGER Charles A. Lindbergh .... 122 Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. ADVANCE BULLETIN SERVICE South Africans Airmails 127 Paul Bugg 3724 Old York Rd. The Airmail Flights of Haiti 132 Baltimore 18, Md. A. P. J. Ads ................... Inside Back Cover TRANSLATION SERVICE Roland Kohl Augusta-Victoria Str. 4 EDITOR Wiesbaden, West Germany Joseph L. Eisendraih AUDITOR 350 No. Deere Park Drive, Highland park, Ill. Stuart .T. Malkin ASSISTANT EDITORS DIRECTORS Robert W. Murch Alton J. Blank, Herbert Brand Ernest A. Kehr L. B. Gatchell ner, Paul Bugg, Robert E. Har ing, Dr. Max Kronstein, George DEPARTMENT AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS L. Lee, Narcisse Pelletier, Horace R. -
Bullets Between the Blades by Dik A
The fixed, forward-firing aerial machine gun marked the start of true air-to-air combat. Bullets Between the Blades By Dik A. Daso in their thinking—and flying. The earliest Wright aircraft flew only straight ahead. It was not until the fall of 1904 that the first aerial turns were routinely attempted. During the first decade of manned and powered flight—although it was possible to maneuver in a three-di- mensional sky—actually engaging and destroying another maneuvering aircraft in the air remained nearly impossible for pilots and gunners. Perhaps this explains why the earli- est attempts to use cloth, wood, and wire aeroplanes as weapons were linked directly to the Earth. The Photos courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution ground was easily viewed and ob- served, and so World War I aircraft were first used to observe enemy troop movements and concentrations, then to direct artillery fire against enemy targets, and finally to strafe and bomb the battlefield. Initially, opposing pilots carried out their missions without interfering with their adversary’s objectives—some- or virtually all of human history, the species has been land-bound, geneti- Fcally coded to think and act with feet planted firmly on solid ground. Then, in December 1903, two bicycle-mak- ers from Ohio expanded the human paradigm for all time when they left the Earth and entered the vertical dimension. Yet initially, even Orville and Wil- bur Wright remained unidirectional Above, Roland Garros at the controls of his Morane-Saulnier, which included metal deflectors on the propeller. -
The Struggle for Control of American Military Aviation
THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF AMERICAN MILITARY AVIATION by PAUL HARRIS LARSON B.A., Auburn University Montgomery, 2000 M.A., Texas State University, 2002 AN ABSTRACT OF A DISSERTATION submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of History College of Arts and Sciences KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Manhattan, Kansas 2016 Abstract The United States Army activated the Aeronautical Division, United States Signal Corps, on August 1, 1907. The men of the Aeronautical Division faced hardships and challenges from the very beginning as they tried to build the nation’s first air force prior to World War I. The U.S. Army, the War Department, Congress, and even the American people, really did not know what aircraft could do beyond simple flight. American airmen tried to demonstrate what air power was capable of, but the response to their achievements never met their expectations. Using an abundance of primary and secondary sources on American air power, this dissertation demonstrates that airmen’s struggle for a separate service was not something that developed slowly over the course of decades. Instead, this dissertation shows that airmen wanted independence from the U.S. Army from the start. From their point of view, the U.S. Army, the War Department, and Congress never really appreciated or understood air power. As a result, airmen became more and more alienated with each passing year until they achieve want they wanted—independence. THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF AMERICAN MILITARY AVIATION by PAUL HARRIS LARSON B.A., Auburn University Montgomery, 2000 M.A., Texas State University, 2002 A DISSERTATION submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of History College of Arts and Sciences KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Manhattan, Kansas 2016 Approved by: Major Professor Dr. -
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T H E C O L O P H O N B O O K S H O P Robert and Christine Liska P. O. B O X 1 0 5 2 E X E T E R N E W H A M P S H I R E 0 3 8 3 3 ( 6 0 3 ) 7 7 2 8 4 4 3 World War I Aviation All items listed have been carefully described and are in fine collector’s condition unless otherwise noted. All are sold on an approval basis and any purchase may be returned within two weeks for any reason. Member ABAA and ILAB. All items are offered subject to prior sale. Please add $4.00 shipping for the first book, $1.00 for each additional volume. New clients are requested to send remittance with order. All shipments outside the United States will be charged shipping at cost. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD and AMERICAN EXPRESS. (603) 772-8443; FAX (603) 772-3384; e-mail: [email protected] http://www.colophonbooks.com ☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼ 1. ADAMS, Briggs Kilburn. The American Spirit. The Letters of Briggs Kilburn Adams. Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc., 1918, small octavo, patterned boards . 104pp. First Edition. With a Preface by Arthur Stanwood Pier. Several of these letters were printed in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin after his death. Adams' very descriptive letters to family while he was at Harvard and then in the many areas of service during World War I. He graduated from Harvard in 1917 after returning from France where he served with the American Ambulance Service. -
American Eagles US Military Aviation in World War I by Narayan
American Eagles The Illustrated History of American Aviation in World War I By Narayan Sengupta American Eagles: American Aviation and World War I 5 Figure 53: Map of main training and HQ locations in France and Italy ............................................................ 105 Figure 54: Salmsons, Spads and other types of airplanes dot airfield at Tours .................................................. 106 Figure 55: Officer's Club at 2nd AIC Tours ..................................................................................................... 107 Figure 56: USAS Enlisted men playing baseball. ............................................................................................ 107 Figure 57: 98th Squadron football team, probably at Tours............................................................................. 108 Figure 58: Field 3 of the 3rd Air Instructional Center at Issoudun .................................................................... 108 Figure 59: Roland Richardson (left) and Quentin Roosevelt (center) with the Normant Family. ....................... 110 Figure 60: Issoudun's airfields in late 1918...................................................................................................... 111 Figure 61: Norman Archibald ......................................................................................................................... 111 Figure 62: Field Four’s commander Harry S. Gwynne standing next the Flying Fish ....................................... 113 Figure 63: Issoudun's cemetery -
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