Pilot Author  James R McConnell, signed on title page. Clear bold signature in pencil. 
 
This book presents a first-hand account of an American in the French Flying Corps during WWI. It tells about American volunteer pilots flying for France in the Lafayette Escadrille before the USA actually entered World War I. 
 
Reviews : 
" This compilation of letters and narrative gives an excellent picture of the training, action, and emotions of the courageous American flyers and their flimsy machines. "  - Jerry 
" A short, thrilling and sobering memoir from James Rogers McConnell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R...), who writes briskly and unsentimentally about his life as a volunteer aviator for France in the American Escadrille. He died in aerial combat a few months after the book was published, shortly before America officially entered the War. " -Tim 
 
Flying for France, with the American escadrille at Verdun,
McConnell, James R. (James Rogers), 1887-1917.
New York, Grosset & Dunlap [c1918]
xiv, 176 p. front., plates,