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Carroll Dana Winslow

1889–1932

An American volunteer pilot in World War I, he turned early air combat into a vivid first-person story. His best-known book brings readers close to the danger, novelty, and strange excitement of flying when military aviation was still new.

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With the French Flying Corps

With the French Flying Corps

by Carroll Dana Winslow

About the author

Born in New York City in 1889, Carroll Dana Winslow was educated at the Taft School and graduated from Yale in 1910. During World War I, he served with the American and French flying corps, experience that shaped the writing he is remembered for today.

Winslow is best known as the author of With the French Flying Corps, published in 1917. The book is a memoir-like account of training, service, and aerial warfare, and it stands out as an early firsthand record of combat flying at a time when aviation was still developing at remarkable speed.

Beyond his war service and writing, available biographical records describe him as a New Yorker who later joined his father's stockbroking firm. He died in 1932.