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>From: "Norton T. Downs" <102621.507@compuserve.com>
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>Subject: Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen
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> Lucas did capture a number of points concerning the Lafayette Escadrille
>quite accurately. Its correct title was 124 Squadron, as in the movie.
>Actually,
>since it was equipped with Nieuport pursuit aircraft throughout its operational
>career it was named by the French N. 124. The squadron mascot was a
>lion cub named Whiskey, which Lufberry and two other members had bought
>in Paris. Lufberry, by the way, was an American of French extraction. He and
>Nungesser became very good friends; perhaps Lucas can be faulted for
>not portraying Lufberry's tendency to party very vigorously when not in the
air.
>Nungesser really was as crash-prone as the show suggests. It is, however,
>unlikely that the squadron would have carried a single Sopwith two-seater
>on the strength. There were squadrons dedicated to reconnaissance and
>bombing whose aircraft were escorted by members of the fighter squadrons.
>I can;t prove it, but I suspect that the crews of two-seaters typically had a
>combat life expectancy of more than eight days. Perhaps a month is more
>like it.
> 124 Squadron was incorporated into the U.S. Air Corps as the 103rd
>Pursuit Squadron on 18 February, 1918.
> Tom Downs
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