(Copy of) Lafayette Escadrille / LFC Roster

This issue may no longer be current however in looking at a couple of older threads I observed some discussion relative as to who may have or may not have been in the Lafayette Escadrille and/or Lafayette Flying Corps. I have seen some rosters on various web sites but perhaps the documents that can be viewed at the URLS listed below may be of some assistance.

http://www.wbhaviland.org/pic/ar042.jpg

This image is a photoscan of the original Honor Roll of the Dead listed in order of the dates they were killed.

http://www.wbhaviland.org/pic/ar047.jpg

This image is a photoscan of an original copy of the Lafayette Escadrille and LFC roster of SURVIVING members, in order of their enlistment.

The original source for these photoscans is an original July 4, 1928 dedication booklet for the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial at Villeneuve l'Etang, produced by the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial.

I'm not trying to take sides in any debates, but just offer a verifiable source of data. Anyone wishing to view the entire booklet can find it at this URL:

http://www.wbhaviland.org/ar031.html

Best regards,

Willis

[Taz]

Willis- Thanks, good stuff.

Taz
Terry Phillips

[TykoPe]

Another source would be the two volumes co-authored by James Norman
Hall and Charles Bernard Nordhoff:
"The Lafayette Flying Corps" 1920, 1948 and the Kennikat Press edition
(reprint) of 1964.

TykoPe

[baldeagle]

Willis,
The scrapbooks are fantastic, many terrific photos. A Lufbery plane I've never seen before, Nieuport 16, looks like #1398, with a white horizontal bar on the fuselage, http://www.wbhaviland.org/le040.html (crashed), and the striped flying boat with flying ram (NAVY) and skull-and-crossbones, http://www.wbhaviland.org/pc054.html (wish that was in color, I wonder if it's the "flashily painted ship" of Al Williams description http://www.wbhaviland.org/pc069.html ), that's WBH standing in front of it, isn't it?
How about somebody having a little trouble with Soda (or Whiskey?) http://www.wbhaviland.org/le058.html, air-to-air of DeLaage in a Morane http://www.wbhaviland.org/le080.html , Lufbery with a SPAD A-2 http://www.wbhaviland.org/le097.html, and the photo on page 47 is of one of Nungessor's Nieuports, note the black heart insignia on the fusleage http://www.wbhaviland.org/le107.html . And on and on, fantastic stuff, thanks for letting us all see it.

[Taz]

Willis- You did a fantastic job on a really historic photo album. Some of the best photos I have seen. I have an unpublished photo of Willis' Spad VII with the green W on the port wing taken at St Pol aerodrome. Interested?

Taz
Terry Phillips

Taz,

Thanks. The image offer sounds great. I'd be happy to credit you for the submission. My private email is mailto:[email protected] .

Eagle,

1. Re. Lufbury's smash ( http://www.wbhaviland.org/le040.html ), I cropped the wingtip from the full size scan and the numbers are more legible - 1390.
http://www.wbhaviland.org/pic/le040wingnumber.jpg

2. Yep. Bill the Goat up front and the Jolly Roger inside a horseshoe amidship. It was pretty darn flashy. (Must not have been any shortage of paint.)

3. That is the Skipper in front of his plane as you concluded.

4. It has to be Whiskey. I think Soda should have been quite a bit smaller at that time and Whiskey was getting into all sorts of trouble... one time costing him an eye. A good comparison of their sizes is shown in the middle view -
http://www.wbhaviland.org/le057.html

5. Correct. It was the Count himself. Don't know who was photographing, though.

6. We're still trying to figure out which aircraft (SFA No.) Luf is posing in front of.

7. Correct again. I wish someone at that time had thought to photograph straight on all the pilots' personal insignia in order to get accurate perspective.

There are a few new views of Spads in the Lafayette section and Strutters in the GTMO section that I put up yesterday. The GTMO photos are extremely clear.

":O) Willis