Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the War, during which he flew with the famed 96th French Pursuit Squadron and directed training at Issoudun, "Casey" became test pilot for Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. As head (and founder) of Curtiss Exhibitions Co. he flew in practically all available races from 1919 to 1926, cleaned up so much prize money with his clipped-wing Oriole that for a time his department alone showed profits in the struggling Curtiss organization. Oldsters recall one race, at Dayton in 1924, which "Casey" failed to win. As usual he loaded as little fuel as necessary into his ship. This time...
...Seward at all. His mother had a lover in 1915 who died in the air service. So the boy gets married and puts on a uniform because-well, because everyone else is playing the game and he is expected to. The curtain falls as a squadron of airplanes drone...
Because Russia's air force was negligible (during two years' fighting the Squadron saw but one enemy plane), it was at first thought that reconnoitering would be the Kosciuszko unit's principal job. But as the sweeping, open warfare grew more intense, individual battles between airmen and Russian troops became of prime importance. So vicious was the Squadron's strafing that the Soviet Commissars put a price of 12,500 gold rubles on the U. S. flyers' heads, later doubled it. Hawking over enemy territory, pilots would bore down out of the sun, both machine...
Denikin's, Kolchak's and Petlura's White armies, struck the naked Polish flank. The Poles began a retreat which did not halt until the Russians were at the gates of Warsaw. Day after day for two months the Squadron fought a 400-mi. rear-guard action, covering the evacuation of towns, hindering and harassing Budenny at every turn. Often their base train would slip out of the west of a town as the Cossacks clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping...
...with the immensely profitable Chang, filmed in. Siam. A descendant of Count Casimir, Pulaski's second-in-command at the Battle of Savannah, affable Pilot Cooper is now an associate producer of Radio-Keith-Orpheum in charge of adventure pictures. Including replacements and the six Polish members the Squadron had a roster of 23. Founder Cooper is the only U. S. member who has made a name for himself in private life. Several of the Poles are high in Polish aviation circles. Author Murray is the only one who still flies commercially. A transport pilot (unemployed), he once went...