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AMERICAN AIRMEN IN FRANCE ARE KNOWN AS LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLEJ’AHIH, France, Doc. 15.—The aeroplane suuailron made up of voluntoor American airmen fighting for Prance on the western front is now known officially as the Lafayolle oscarlnllc. For fijo first few mouths after its formation the group wua known tin tho Americau oseadnlle. A few weeksago, fallowing protests from the r]o-nartincut of slate of the United States, tho name was changed to the uscartriUe ol volunteers. On batur-iluy at) order way road to tho Ainon* can airpicn announcing that henceforth the corps would hoar tho name, of the greatest Krenoh general whoj Vfought for freedom in Amoriea.f Willis llaviland of OWcago andllobert Souhiran of New Ym% both pilots in the Lafayette esearlrii e, have been promoted to Horgoauts.Stephen Bigelow of Boston, M^-ss., and Edmund lionet of Ossining, N. ^ •. have finished their training n» war idiots Jittd yiimciis ton-crul rwon'U sUliou .awaiting ordera to go to the front. Litfcolu Lhuikott of Brooklyn. N. Y., Who passed eighteen- month? Ui.tfco foreign legion andthen trailed asVi'ah' l^lot. by «*c-ia! hay rciunjod to Uwlegion lor- throe mouths. He had been a member uf tho airmen u re-tiorvu tov yevorai weeks «uU lt;J os paired of gelling to 1U« front as a pilot before spring. He was eager for action, and learning that the legion was soon to wake an attack asketl leave to return to bis old corps-
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Ludington Daily News
Ludington, Michigan, US
Fri, Dec 15, 1916
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