The Scrapbooks of Willis B. Haviland

An Earlybird's Scrapbook

The Lafayette Escadrille

Book One, Page Forty Eight, Bottom

Top Left - No caption

Top Right - "Whiskey."
Two mechanics are stinding in front of Nieuport 17, SFA No. 1803 (in the hangar.)

Bottom - "Mechanics" (A fitting last photo of the Lafayette scrapbook since the squad couldn't fly without them!)
They are working on Capt. Thenault's Nieuport 17, SFA No. 1372, with the butterfly emblem.
Click here to view a high resolution crop of the cockpit.


This is the end of the W.B. Haviland Lafayette Escadrille "Scrapbook One." The web documents immediately following include other photos of interest submitted by site viewers, Lafayette Escadrille artifacts, newspaper accounts and other memoribilia, after which the "Earlybird's Scrapbook" site continues on to present photographs of activities at N.A.S. Porto Corsini in 1918.

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