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Carroll Dana Winslow
1889–1932
An American volunteer pilot in World War I, he turned early air combat into vivid first-person writing. His best-known book, With the French Flying Corps, offers a direct, on-the-ground view of flying for France before the United States entered the war.
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With the French Flying Corps
by Carroll Dana Winslow
About the author
Born in 1889, Carroll Dana Winslow is chiefly remembered for With the French Flying Corps, a 1917 account of his experiences as an American serving with French aviation during World War I. The book has remained the work most closely associated with his name and is still listed in major public-domain and library catalogs.
Winslow's writing stands out for its immediacy: it comes from the era of fragile aircraft, improvised tactics, and the dangerous early years of military flight. For listeners interested in memoir, aviation history, or the First World War, his work offers a personal window into a moment when flying was still new and wartime service in the air felt experimental and intensely risky.
Available sources also connect him with the Lafayette Flying Corps tradition of American volunteers in French service. He died in 1932, leaving behind a small but memorable place in the literature of early aviation and wartime memoir.