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In 1914, "The Great War" --WWI--began in Europe. By 1917, the Allied powers of
France, England, Italy and others were on the ropes against the German juggernaut.
Some altruistic young Americans disagreed with the war. They volunteered to fight
alongside their counterparts in France; some in the infantry, some in the Ambulance
Corps. A handful of others had a different idea: they decided to learn how to fly. The
first of them--a squadron of only 38-- became known as the Lafayette Escadrille. This
is their story. Forced to abandon his family's ranch, Blaine Rawlings finds his future
in a newsreel chronicling the adventures of young aviators in France. At a small train
station in rural Nebraska, William Jensen promises to make his family proud. In New
York, spoiled Briggs Lowry embarks on a trans-Atlantic passage. Meanwhile, in
France, black expatriate boxer, Eugene Skinner, vows to repay his debt to his
adopted racially tolerant country. Together, these American boys arrive at an
aerodrome in France, eager to learn how to fly. What they didn't realize was that they
were about to embark on a great, romantic adventure, becoming the world's first
combat pilots.

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