Category:Escadrille la Fayette

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English: The Lafayette Escadrille (from the French Escadrille de Lafayette), was a squadron of the French Air Service, the Aéronautique militaire, during World War I composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighters.

Français : L'escadrille La Fayette est une unité de volontaires américains constituée en 1916 sous commandement français afin de venir en aide à la France lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, en mémoire de La Fayette.

Lafayette Escadrille

U.S. volunteer unit constituted in 1916 under French command

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Instance of

escadrille

Named after

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Location

France

Inception

1916

Different from

Authority file
Q371917 VIAF ID: 130226093 Library of Congress authority ID: n83172109 IdRef ID: 027768198
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Subcategories

This category has the following 25 subcategories, out of 25 total.

B

Stephen Sohier Bigelow (1 F)

C

Victor Chapman (11 F)

D

F

Christopher W. Ford (3 F)

G

Edmond Genet (9 F)

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L

Walter Lovell (3 F)
Gervais Raoul Lufbery (28 F)

M

Didier Masson (4 F)
James Rogers McConnell (20 F)
Mémorial de l'Escadrille La Fayette (48 F)

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Charles Nungesser (6 C, 52 F)

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R

Kiffin Rockwell (10 F)

S

Joseph C. Stehlin (5 F)

T

William Thaw II (28 F)
Georges Thenault (32 F)

W

Harold Buckley Willis (9 F)

Media in category "Escadrille la Fayette"

The following 44 files are in this category, out of 44 total.

103d Aero Squadron - Emblem.jpg 3,600 × 2,430; 922 KB
103d Aero Squadron.jpg 425 × 287; 31 KB
124LAF Harold Willis.jpg 300 × 488; 92 KB
189 16 escadrille La Fayette.jpg 598 × 561; 98 KB
Aircraft Insignia, Lafeyette Escadrille (cropped).jpg 1,775 × 1,448; 1.67 MB
Aircraft Insignia, Lafeyette Escadrille.jpg 2,000 × 1,626; 1.52 MB
Badge, Pilot, French Air Service, Lafayette Escadrille.JPG 673 × 542; 211 KB
Curtiss Hawk 75A-1 'No82 X-8' (G-CCVH) (49814919736).jpg 4,079 × 2,719; 8.19 MB
Didier Masson, French aviator, and M Blanceneu, El Cayo 1923.tif 1,802 × 3,201; 11 MB
Dr. Edmund Gros.jpg 444 × 770; 184 KB
Edmond Charles Clinton Genet circa 1915-1917.jpg 305 × 598; 39 KB
Edmond Genet Burial.jpg 2,387 × 1,680; 1.34 MB
Elliott Christopher Cowdin (left), Norman Prince (center), William Thaw II (right) on December 23, 1915- all American aviators that served in the French Army (cropped).jpg 578 × 660; 73 KB
Elliott Cowdin, Norman Prince, William Thaw on December 23, 1915.jpg 3,321 × 4,859; 2.74 MB
Escadrille Americaine, May 1916.jpg 735 × 590; 140 KB
Escadrille at full strength.jpg 1,112 × 612; 296 KB
Escadrille.png 613 × 453; 397 KB
Flag of the Escadrille Lafayette.png 585 × 540; 109 KB
Flag of the Escadrille Lafayette.svg 512 × 473; 502 KB
Flags - Presentation of Flag - Lieutenant William Thaw with American flag made by U.S. Treasury employees - NARA - 31480618.jpg 9,067 × 6,235; 19.22 MB
Flags - République Française Aviation Militaire - Presentation of Flag - Lieutenant William Thaw with American flag made by U.S. Treasury employees - NARA - 31480618 (cropped).jpg 4,420 × 3,316; 5.44 MB
Flying for France - with the American escadrille at Verdun (1917) (14595564619).jpg 1,968 × 1,266; 1.33 MB
Honoring the Lafayette Escadrille.jpg 628 × 1,000; 184 KB
K. Rockwell, Capt. Thenault, Wm. Thaw, N. Prince LCCN2014701924.jpg 5,735 × 4,166; 3.05 MB
Lafayette Escadrille at Verdun.jpg 730 × 576; 127 KB
LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE banner.jpg 1,800 × 1,136; 380 KB
Lafayette Escadrille Banner.jpg 1,800 × 1,123; 279 KB
Lafayette Escadrille pilots with a Nieuport 16 March1916.png 991 × 715; 577 KB
Lafayette Escadrille pilots.jpg 1,000 × 673; 355 KB
Lafayette Escadrille Pin.JPG 1,800 × 1,373; 416 KB
Lafayette Escadrille.png 750 × 662; 583 KB
LtCol William Thaw with lion cub mascots of Lafayette Escradrille c1916.jpg 1,800 × 1,085; 1.34 MB
Native Americans as logo art with non-Nazi swastika, from- LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE banner (cropped).jpg 337 × 272; 54 KB
Nieuport 11 C.1.jpg 1,639 × 1,011; 294 KB
Nieuport w Le Prieur rockets.jpg 672 × 448; 135 KB
Ramex Delta Dassault Mirage 2000N (28213997186).jpg 3,239 × 2,113; 578 KB
Sioux.png 425 × 287; 185 KB
103rd Aero Squadron - Spad XIII.jpg 991 × 683; 141 KB
The story of the Lafayette escadrille told by its commander, Captain Georges Thenault (IA storyoflafayette00thenrich).pdf 808 × 1,229, 248 pages; 9.68 MB
Survivors of the Lafayette Escadrille Get Together (1927).png 818 × 747; 638 KB
The Escadrille Lafayette in July 1917.jpg 1,800 × 1,012; 340 KB
The Escadrille Lafayette mascots Whiskey and Soda.jpg 279 × 149; 22 KB
The Lafayette Memorial Crypt.jpg 2,700 × 1,809; 895 KB
Thomas M. Hewitt, Jr., Lafayette Escadrille.jpg 1,463 × 2,000; 1.51 MB

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