High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France

It was on a cool starlit evening early in September 1916 that I first met Drew of Massachusetts and actually began my adventures as a prospective member of the Escadrille Américaine. We had sailed from New York by the same boat had made our applications for enlistment in the Foreign Legion on the same day without being aware of each other’s existence; and in Paris while waiting for our papers we had gone every evening for dinner to the same large and gloomy-looking restaurant in the neighborhood of the Seine.