author
Carroll Dana Winslow
1889–1932
A young American aviator who volunteered for France in World War I, he turned his early flying experience into a vivid firsthand memoir. His writing brings readers close to the danger, novelty, and excitement of aviation at the very start of air warfare.
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With the French Flying Corps
by Carroll Dana Winslow
About the author
Best known for With the French Flying Corps (1917), Carroll Dana Winslow wrote from direct experience as an American who joined the French air service during World War I. Contemporary catalog records identify the book as a personal narrative about military aviation in France, and it remains the work most closely associated with his name.
Available records place his life between 1889 and 1932. Sources connected with his military service and memorial records describe him as part of the group of American volunteers linked to the Lafayette Flying Corps, a generation of flyers who entered combat before the United States formally joined the war.
What makes Winslow interesting as an author is the immediacy of his perspective. He was writing about flight when it was still new, risky, and improvisational, so his memoir offers not just war history, but a glimpse of aviation in its daring early years.