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of the Lafayette Squadron You can access the page by clicking on the title above. You may want to find the link to Cowdin's story by using your FIND function on "Cowdin", but I heartily recommend that you read the entire article. As time permits, you may want to visit the biographies of many of the heroes in the group. |
Unité Volontaire de Combat Oubliée de l’Amérique |
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America in the War. The Vanguard of American Volunteers in the Fighting Lines and in Humanitarian Service, August, 1914 --April, 1917 New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919 This is a really remarkable online resource. It appears to be the digitalization of an entire book, all 34 chapters of it. You can go directly to the page on which you will find the reference to Elliott Cowdin by clicking on: THE LAFAYETTE, OR AMERICAN, ESCADRILLE |
'Vive la France' by American journalist E. Alexander Powell 1916 The War in the Air |
They flew their last mission eighty years ago. BY ERIC DEXHEIMER This article on the Denver Westword.com website is another remarkable resource for us. "When Andy Parks was growing up, once or twice a year his family would leave their home in Parker and fly to California or Florida or New York or Germany. Parks's father, James, a busy obstetrician and gynecologist, was flexible on these vacation destinations. Anywhere was fine with him--with one important stipulation. Wherever the Parks family traveled, there had to be a World War I pilot nearby." It has only the briefest of references to Elliott Cowdin, but it does locate him in Indiana at the time James Parks interviewed him. I heartily recommend that you read the entire article by clicking on the title above. I think you will be amazed and intrigued by this account of the saga of James Parks and his quest for information regarding his obsession with World War I aviators over the years. |
The Lafayette Flying Corps The American Volunteers in the French Air Service in World War One by Dennis Gordon Product Details Hard Cover: 504 pages; 11.3 x 8.9 x 1.8 inches Publisher: Shiffer Publishing 2000, Atglen, PA List Price: $59.95 ISBN: 0764311085 |
Book Description: from Amazon.com This new book contains not only a history of the legendary Lafayette Flying Corps, but also detailed biographies of the 269 volunteer American airmen and gunners of France's Service Aeronautique who flew in sixty-six pursuit and twenty-seven bomber/observation squadrons over the Western Front. Also included are the thirty-eight pilots of the Escadrille Lafayette. It is an accurate and absorbing account of the lives and combat experiences of the men who later formed the nucleus of the American Expeditionary Force squadrons. This ground breaking work contains comprehensive research, including details of war casualties and survivors, and many unpublished photographs., over 320 and b/w photographs, 8 1/2" x 11. |
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