Osprey Publishing AEU18 Groupe De Combat 12, ‘Les Cigognes’

This book traces the combat history of the most famous and highest-scoring
fighter group in France’s World War I Aviation Militaire. Groupe de Combat
12 boasted the highest-scoring Allied fighter pilot, RenÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃé Fonck, and
France’s most celebrated hero of the air, Georges Guynemer. Its ranks
included numerous other famous aces, such as Rene’s Dorme, Alfred Heurteaux,
Albert Deullin, and American volunteers Edwin Parsons and Frank L. Baylies.
Additionally, Guynemer was instrumental in developing France’s premier
series of fighter planes, the SPAD VII, XII, XIII and XVII.