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Illustration Credits
Map by Caroll Hale
Fig 1: WikiCommons
Fig 2: Paris Herald, August 26, 1914 (public domain)
Fig 3: National Archives photo no. 242-HB-1103
Figs 4 and 5: Courtesy of the Virginia Military Institute Archives
Fig 6: From Thenault, George. The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1921 (public domain)
Fig 7: From McConnell, James R. Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun (1917), on Documenting the American South. University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fig 8: Great War Primary Document Archive: Photos of the Great War (gwpda.org/photos)
Fig 9: Library of Congress
Fig 10: National Air and Space Museum collection, NASM A-48745-R
Fig 11: WikiCommons
Fig 12: WikiCommons
Fig 13: Bildarchiv Austria
Fig 14: National Air and Space Museum, NASM-2005-17461
Fig 15: New England Air Museum
Fig 16: National Air and Space Museum Archives, NASM A-4876-A
Fig 17: Solent News and Photo Agency
Fig 18: Great War Primary Document Archive: Photos of the Great War (gwpda.org/photos)
Fig 19: Credit: Great War Primary Document Archive: Photos of the Great War (www.gwpda.org/photos)
Fig 20: New England Air Museum
Fig 21: © SZ Photo/Scherl/The Image Works
Fig 22: United States Air Force
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