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On one particular mission, Rounds was on the verge of blacking out, in a nosedive and tailspin straight for the earth, when a German aircraft came upon him - and Rounds lightly feathered his ammunition into the vickers, and the German aircraft was destroyed.
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Lassell Rounds, in the cockpit of his aircraft, and his mechanic of the Lafayette Air Corps. Rounds is seen here about to take off for a combat mission over Verdun in his Spad.
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caught fire at 35,00 meters, and he had to crash land "in a marsh near Verdun, in a sea of cool, delicious, wet mud, and in one sense was none the worse for the bath."
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to gather intelligences on Axis power troop movements and other important information. Rounds would send much of his information back to the War
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On 26 March 1926, Rounds was present for the unveiling of the memorial to the
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as a diplomat in France. On a trip aboard a steamship over the
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Lafayette Flying Corps: The American Volunteers in the French Air Service in World War One
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Rounds was grounded from aerial combat missions because he blacked out over 35,000 meters.
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MODEL OF MEMORIAL TO AIRMEN UNVEILED: MARSHAL FOCH PAYS TRIBUTE TO LAFAYETTE ESCADRILE.
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Immediately before Torch commenced, Rounds boarded the headquarters ship of Commodore
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Herman, John. “Agency Africa: Rygor’s Franco-Polish Network and Operation Torch.”
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In the Spring of 1941, Rounds was deployed as a Vice Consular Officer under
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On 3 January 1918, he was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the
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