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Sketches of modified Ford Model T ambulances showing where stretchers could be mounted. |
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Helping others to help themselves. |
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TLJ Enterprises |
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Premier Lafayette Escadrille Site Historian Dennis Gordon’s outstanding webpage. |
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Related Links |
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There are many sites dealing with World War I and early combat aviation. Some describe the Lafayette Escadrille or some of its more famous members. A discriminating researcher will discover wide variances in these accounts. Happy surfing! |
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World War I Aviation A pictorial history of WW I aviation maintained by the History Channel. |
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USAF Museum http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/ww1/ea.htm The USAF Museum at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio contains an impressive collection of items from the Lafayette Escadrille. I visited and climbed on their Spad display until shooed off by an attendant. This is an authoritative site. |
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Charles Nungesser http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWnungesser.htm Nungesser actually joined the Lafayette Escadrille for a short period during the war. He was supposed to be convalescing from wounds and injuries, but chose to fly with the Americans instead. |
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I found several rare or out of print reference books at this small privately owned bookshop run by Mike and Carol Fisher. They were very helpful in my early research. Their collection includes just about anything you might want dealing with aviation and space, past, present and future. |
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One of the best sites that describes serving as a driver in France in 1916 with the American Ambulance Field Service. |
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To contact Terry Johnson: |
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This is Charles Nungesser’s airplane with its distinctive black heart, skull and candles insignia. |
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Lafayette Escadrille http://www.acepilots.com/wwi/lafayette.html An excellent page with accurate information |