There was the sun just rising to show him which was the east, and already far down below he saw the ribbon of the Rhine which they must cross; but sluing round to look back, he saw the thing he feared-an escadrille of German aircraft rising from the plain over which the smoke from the Zeppelin hangar still hung.
"With Haig on the Somme"
D. H. Parry
He had flown at the front for months as one of the Lafayette escadrille.
"Our Pilots in the Air"
Captain William B. Perry
Every fella you meet's been in the Lafayette escadrille.
"Gigolo"
Edna Ferber