{"id":2761,"date":"2024-07-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2024-06-29T13:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T17:11:04","slug":"flyboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"Flyboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Flyboys.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Flyboys.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2762\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Year of Release:\u00a0<\/strong>2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A summary from Amazon:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1914; &#8220;The Great War&#8221; &#8211; WWI &#8211; 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 &#8211; a squadron of only 38 &#8211; became known as the Lafayette Escadrille. This is their story. Forced to abandon his family&#8217;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&#8217;t realize was that they were about to embark on a great; romantic adventure; becoming the world&#8217;s first combat pilots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goshen Public Library call number:  <\/strong> DVD-A (VISUAL MATERIAL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year of Release:\u00a02014 A summary from Amazon:&nbsp; In 1914; &#8220;The Great War&#8221; &#8211; WWI &#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}