The True Action Adventures of the Twentieth Century

France's Yankee Fliers - The Story of the Escadrille Lafayette (1x14)

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Well before their country entered the Great War a number of adventurous Americans volunteered to fight for the British and French. Among them were a number of pilots, and in early 1916 they were formed into a special French fighter squadron, which fought with great distinction on the Western Front. Amazing aerial footage shows WW1 dog-fights as they really were.