The Vanguard of American Volunteers in the Fighting Lines And in Humanitarian Se
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The French Government told him they could not use his services, as avia- tion was so popular among the soldiers and so many were seeking to be admitted to this ser- vice that they had more aviators than they could use. This decision was finally reversed through the influence of M. De Sillac, who was connected with the Department of Foreign Affairs and to whom Prince had been introduced by John J. Chapman, the father of Victor Chapman. Of the original group of young American airmen who formed th...e Lafayette Escadrille, Cowdin wrote as follows: THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE 209 Early in May [1916] we were all mobilized at the Alsatian front as the "Lafayette Squad- ron" with French officers, Captain Thenault and Lieutenant de Laage, in command. The origi- nal members, besides those officers, were: Nor- man Prince, William Thaw, Victor Chapman and Kiffin Rockwell, of the Foreign Legion; James McConneli, who had already done good work in the American Ambulance before join- ing the French Aviation; Bert Hall and myself.
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