The Scrapbooks of Willis B. Haviland

An Earlybird's Scrapbook

The Lafayette Escadrille

Book One, Page Two, Right Top

"Victor Chapman"
(Another view of his Nieuport 11 "Bebe," SFA No. 1148. The position of the instruments in the cockpit and the padded windscreen were not typical.)

"German machine gun ripped through the back of his fuselage and hit Victor in the head, May, 1916"



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Lafayette
Escadrille
Porto
Corsini
Airplanes
Off Ships
Stateside
Action
The Roma
Catastrophe
Earlybird
Artifacts
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