Noun, : the Lafayette escadrille of World War I.    From Dictionary.com. 

In France the unit was the 'escadrille', consisting of six machines, and roughly corresponding to what we call a flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force] Reference

And then the commander of our escadrille vanished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult] Reference

Boche escadrille on his tail, crazy to fetch him down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold] Reference

An escadrille of corvettes left Daedalus orbit and accelerated downward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]

As Tryntaf whipped in hyperbola close by the globe, his escadrille shot from her launch ports.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]

The escadrille was ordered to the sector of Verdun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

No greater blow could have befallen the escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

His death has left a great void in this escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air] Reference

Soon the escadrille is bunched and off for the lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

I am placed in a peculiar position in the escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Four of the battleplanes were from the American escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Americans to join their escadrille at Luxeuil, in the Vosges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Of the other members of the escadrille Sergeant Givas Lufbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

The news of Rockwell's death was telephoned to the escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

And all the pilots of the escadrille, in turn, came to sign it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air] Reference

The escadrille passed through Paris on its way to the Somme front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

The memory of the first sortie we made as an escadrille will always.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun] Reference

In the sky an escadrille of French planes had appeared and the three.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Man's Initiation—1917] Reference

Our escadrille had been in Luxeuil during the months of April and May.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

There was trouble getting new airplanes for every one in the escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Four "palms" -- the record for the escadrille, glitter upon the ribbon of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Two days after Prince's death the escadrille received orders to leave for the Somme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Nevertheless, here is Guynemer's statement, countersigned by the escadrille commandant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air] Reference

He was the first member of the escadrille to bring down an enemy plane in aerial combat.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina's Part in the War] Reference

He was the founder of the American escadrille and every one in it had come to rely on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

The boys who have gone made the name for the escadrille and now it's up to us who are left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Talk about forming an all-American flying unit, or escadrille, was rife while I was at Pau.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Generally the escadrille is relieved by another fighting unit after two hours over the lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Then a pilot from another fighting escadrille telephoned us that he had seen a Nieuport falling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

I must return to my escadrille, but I don't want to lose him. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air] Reference

I must return to my escadrille, but I don't want to lose him.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Guynemer]

"palms" -- the record for the escadrille, glitter upon the ribbon of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

One of his escadrille mates described him thus: "With remarkable intelligence, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air] Reference

Page 97 the escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Page 106 the American escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun] Reference

And the men attached to the escadrille!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Then a pilot from another fighting escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Guynemer in his early days with the escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air] Reference

Page 157 escadrille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun] Reference