For France and Civilization

The romance of the French Foreign Legion was taken aloft by pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille.

Paul Mirat’s gouache painting of World War I aviators includes several members of the Lafayette Escadrille. ( Dan Patterson (Paul Mirat Collection))

By Paul Glenshaw

airspacemag.com
November 20, 2014

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Nancy Hall Rutgers (shown here with her husband Nick) is the daughter of James Norman Hall, an original Escadrille pilot and author of Mutiny on the Bounty. She commissioned this replica SPAD XIII to be built for the Vintage Aero Flying Museum in Colorado and painted in her father’s squadron colors.

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