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The Allen Eagle Escadrille has also received "Sweepstakes" Division I ratings at the Marching Band University Interscholastic League Competition for over the past 20 years.
The 31st Recce Escadrille, forming part of the organic aviation of the Karpaty Army successfully bombed the tanks of the 4th Light Division on the road between Nowy Targ and Chabówka.
Only the latter was selected for production and was built in quantity to supply one escadrille at the Naval training station at Hourtin.
Twenty-nine remained in service at the outbreak of World War II, with the last examples serving with Escadrille 20S in Tahiti until January 1941.
Escadrille 103 of the French Air Force was an elite aviation unit on the Western Front during the World War I. One of its many aces, René Fonck was the highest scoring Allied fighter-pilot.
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Escadrille 103 was formed from Breguet Escadrille 17, the latter being founded on 2 August 1914 at Longvic.
Escadrille SPA.124 (Jeanne d'Arc) was raised on 19 February 1918 as a replacement for Escadrille N.124 and still exists
Escadrille 15 is one of the oldest units of the French Air Force, which was founded on 22 August 1912 at Reims, France, and is still active.
On 19 March 1918, the escadrille earned the fourragere of the Croix de guerre by being cited again, for downing another 23 enemy airplanes.
The second citation entitled the unit to wear a fourragere denoting a unit award of the Croix de guerre; Escadrille N 67 was the first aerial unit to win this award.
Escadrille 73 of the French Air Force originated at Corcieux on 23 May 1915 as Detachment N 49 during the World War I.
The name Kościuszko's Squadron or Kościuszko's Escadrille, taken from the Polish-Lithuanian hero Tadeusz Kościuszko, has been borne by several units of the Polish Air Force throughout its history.
After being damaged in a collision with another flying boat, it eventually entered full service with the Vichy French Navy on 15 October 1941, operating with Escadrille 4E at Port Lyautey and Dakar.
On 7 March 1918, he was appointed to command of Escadrille Spa95 ('Spa' meaning Spad).
In December 1914, renowned French aviator Roland Garros, then serving with Escadrille 23, worked with Raymond Saulnier to create a gun synchronizer, around the gas operated Hotchkiss light machine gun, however the firing rate fluctuated too much, defeating efforts to get the synchronizer to function properly.
The aircraft also flew with the Aéronavale l'Escadrille 3C1, established in Marignane, this formation later transferring to the Air Force at the beginning of 1936, where it became Le Groupe de Chasse II/8.
Captain Georges Thenault, the Escadrille's commander, credits Norman for conceiving the idea of bringing together his countrymen with some of those of the French Foreign Legion in a squadron of flyers to be initially known as the Escadrille Américaine.
The enterprising Piccio persuaded a nearby French escadrille into "loaning" him the latest in anti-balloon firepower, Le Prieur rockets–the loan being conditional upon French pilots partaking in the balloon busting expedition.
After several years agricultural service, the aircraft, F-WGIR, was retired and used as an advertising feature for the former Bar de l'Escadrille at Guyancourt airfield to the west of Paris, where it was last noted in June 1963.
The Villiers II entered service with Escadrille 5C1 based at Hyères near Toulon in Southern France in May 1927, with the aircraft never being operated from the Béarn.
He flew a Nieuport in Escadrille 65, before transferring into a French unit composed of American volunteers, known as the Escadrille Americaine, Escadrille 124 under its new designation became nicknamed the Lafayette Escadrille.