Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
James Rogers McConnell (1887-1917) was an aviator during World War I in the Lafayette Escadrille. He spent two years at the University of Virginia, and one in the law school. In 1910 he left law school and joined his family in Carthage. There he served as the land and industrial agent of the Seaboard Air Line Railway and secretary of the Carthage Board of Trade. In January 1915, Mc- Connell sailed from New York to enlist with the American Ambulance Corps in France. On May 13, 1916 Mc- Connell participated in the unit's first patrol. Thirty-eight pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille flew Nieuport biplanes. Operating from Luxeuil Field in eastern…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4099-8117-6
- EAN: 9781409981176
- Produktnummer: 5782300
- Verlag: Lulu Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 70 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.4 cm 113 g
- Gewicht: 113
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