Lafayette Escadrille Archives » Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame https://riahof.org/keyword/lafayette-escadrille Honoring Rhode Island's Rich Aviation History Wed, 08 Jul 2020 15:56:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://riahof.org/wp-content/uploads/riahof-512x512-1-150x150.png Lafayette Escadrille Archives » Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame https://riahof.org/keyword/lafayette-escadrille 32 32 Lt. Col. Charles Raymond Blake, USAF (Ret) https://riahof.org/field-of-accomplishment/military/us-air-force/lieut-col-charles-raymond-blake-usaf-ret Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:39:05 +0000 http://www.riahof.dreamhosters.com/?p=1250 Blake was born on November 8, 1897 in Westerly and graduated in 1916 from Westerly High School, he was the star center on the football team and a member of the track team. After a semester of college in Boston, he volunteered for the American Ambulance Service in January 1917 before the US entered the […]

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]]> Charles Gordon Greenhalgh https://riahof.org/field-of-accomplishment/military/us-army/charles-greenhalgh Sat, 21 Nov 2015 20:15:54 +0000 http://www.riahof.dreamhosters.com/?p=966 Charles Gordon Greenhalgh (1895-1977) was born into a Pawtucket manufacturing family. Early in 1917, Greenhalgh and a number of Yale classmates left school to fight with the Allies, prior to US involvement.

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]]> LT Norman Prince https://riahof.org/field-of-accomplishment/military/other-military/lt-norman-prince-1887-1916 Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:26:33 +0000 http://www.riahof.dreamhosters.com/?p=772 LT Norman Prince (1887-1916) was the 55th American to earn a pilot’s license (1911). He is best known as one of the founders of the famed Lafayette Escadrille, the group of American volunteer pilots who flew for France before the US entered World War I.

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