Recollections Of The Great War In The Air

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In 1915 James Roger McConnell enlisted as a US volunteer in the French Flying Corps

• Recollections Of The Great War In The Air available on March 15 2016 from VitalSource for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">9.99
  
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He was part of a remarkable band of
American volunteers which were formed into the famous American 'Lafayette' Escadrille. 'Flying for France' was his personal account of the war in the air as seen through the eyes a front-line pilot of the American Escadrille, which was then based at Verdun. His memoirs produce an amazing insight into the early aerial battles and trace the evolution of aerial warfare as the rickety aircraft of 1915 rapidly evolved into the purpose built fighters of 1917.

Casualties among the American Escadrille were very high and McConnell's own luck finally ran out when he was ambushed by two German fighters and was killed in action in March 1917. His gripping and detailed memoir of the war is his lasting memorial

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