Spa 124 Lafayette Escadrille

Informationen zum Autor Jon Guttman, a resident of Leesburg, Virginia, is currently research director for Historynet.com. Specialising in World War I aviation, he has written eleven titles for Osprey including the popular Aircraft of the Aces 66: Balloon-Busting Aces of World War I . Klappentext This book tells the story of one of World War I's most famous squadrons, Spa. 124 - the only French squadron made up entirely of American volunteers (save for the commander and executive officer.) Organised in April 1916, the group was successively dubbed the Escadrille Americaine, Escadrille des Volontaires and finally the Escadrille Lafayette. Its achievements were modest, but it included several colourful characters who captured the public imagination and played a major role in gaining American sympathy for the Allied cause. When the United States finally entered the war, many Lafayette veterans helped prepare US Army Air Service and Navy pilots for combat, although a few chose to stay on with the French. Zusammenfassung This book tells the story of one of World War I's most famous squadrons, Spa. 124 - the only French squadron made up entirely of American volunteers (save for the commander and executive officer.) Organised in April 1916, the group was successively dubbed the Escadrille Americaine, Escadrille des Volontaires and finally the Escadrille Lafayette. Its achievements were modest, but it included several colourful characters who captured the public imagination and played a major role in gaining American sympathy for the Allied cause. When the United States finally entered the war, many Lafayette veterans helped prepare US Army Air Service and Navy pilots for combat, although a few chose to stay on with the French. Inhaltsverzeichnis Origins of N. 124 (Formation and early operations); Verdun and the Somme (Major actions and the adoption of the sobriquet 'Lafayette'); Lafayette becomes famous (Spad VIIs and operations through February 18! 1918); Split Metamorphosis (Summaries of the 103rd Aero Squadron and Spa. 124); Escadrilles and Commanders of GC. 12 ...

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• Autori: Jon Guttman, Guttman Jon
• Con la collaborazione di: Harry Dempsey (Illustrazione), Dempsey Harry (Illustrazione)
• Editore: Osprey Publishers
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.07.2004
• EAN: 9781841767529
• ISBN: 978-1-84176-752-9
• Pagine: 128
• Dimensioni: 185 mm x 247 mm x 10 mm
• Serie: Aviation Elite Units; Aviation Elite Units
• Categorie: Saggistica; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Europäische Geschichte, 1910 bis 1919 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, First World War, Luftwaffe und Kriegsführung, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, Air forces & warfare, Warfare & defence, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Air forces and warfare, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I