Index

 

A

Aberdeen, Scotland 22, 23

airplane types 3, 64, 65, 67, 71, 72, 80, 82, 83, 87, 88, 89, 97, 98

Alexandria, Egypt 107

American Expeditionary Forces 40

American Flying Service 99

American Hospital 109–110, 123

American Legion 125, 127, 130

Angoulême, France 123

anti-aircraft guns 85

Arc de Triomphe 131–132

Armstrong, Louis 112, 131

Artois, battle of 39–43

Atlanta, Georgia 13, 14, 18

Austro-Hungarian Empire 33

Avord School of Military Aviation 72–77

B

Bader, Major 121, 122

Baldwin, Chris 25–26, 27

Bar-le-Duc, France 56, 57, 87, 91, 103–104

Bastille Day ceremonies 131

Battle of Artois 39–43

Battle of Champagne 46–48, 49

Battle of Verdun 51–54

Beau-Zie-sur-Aire, France 80

Belgium, and WWI 34

Bethonsart, France 39

Biarritz, France 108, 123, 124, 125

“Big Chief Ox”. See Bullard, William Octave

Blackfriars Ring 28

Blériot Penguin 65, 65–67

Bleriot, Roleur 67–68

Bolling, Colonel Raynal 100, 102

Bordeaux, France 125

Bosnia-Herzegovina 33

Boucher, Captain 77

Bradley, W. C. 5–10

Brown, Aaron Lister 26–28, 30, 31. See also “The Dixie Kid”

Bullard, Eugene

air combat 81–99

as a boxer 25–32, 35, 106, 107

as a hurdy-gurdy performer 23–24

as a spy 113–117

as French aviator 3–4, 40, 60, 61–62, 64–99

battle with cancer 135–136

childhood of 5–11

“Darky” 23

death and burial of 135–136

divorce of 112

ground combat 37–60

“Gypsy” 16, 17, 18

Jacques 32, 35

jobs 17, 18, 22, 24, 106, 118, 128, 131, 132

joins the French Foreign Legion 35

marriage of 108

medals awarded to 50, 58, 59, 63, 104, 118, 131, 134

military promotions 46, 136

nightclubs 106–107, 109, 111–114, 117

Le Grand Duc 109

L’Escadrille 111, 112, 114

Zelli’s 107

ship travel 19–22

shot down 3–4, 94–95

uniforms of 50, 59, 63

wounded in battle 52–53, 54, 56, 57–58

Bullard, Eugene Jr

birth and death of 108–109

Bullard, Jacqueline Jeanette Marcelle 108, 112, 117, 118, 119, 128–129

Bullard, Josephine 5, 6

Bullard, Lolita Josephine 109, 112, 117, 118, 119, 128–129

Bullard, Pauline 8, 9

Bullard’s Athletic Club 111–112

Bullard, Wiley 5

Bullard, William Octave 5–8

C

Calais, France 30

Caudron 71–72

Caz-au-lac, France 64

Champagne, battle of 46–49

Chaplin, Charlie 109

Chapman, Victor 61

Chartres, France 120, 129

Châteauroux, France 71

Chattahoochee River 5

Chevert Barracks 54

Chevillard, Captain 78

Chris Baldwin’s Gymnasium 25

Christmas ceasefire 38–39

Columbus, Georgia 5, 130–131

Connell, Mrs. 135–136

Countess Helene Heloise Charlotte 108

D

Dawson City, Georgia 17

de Gaulle, Charles 133–134

Dickson, Jeff 61, 69, 70, 111–112

“Dixie Kid,” The 26–28, 31

Douaument, France 54

E

Edward, Prince of Wales 109

Egypt 29, 107

Elysées Montmarte arena 31

English Channel 23, 30

Escadrille, L’ 111

F

Ferrolino, Commandant 60, 62

Fitzgerald, F. Scott 109

Fleury, France 56

flu epidemic 105

Fokker 87, 88, 90

Fontaine du Berger, France 105

Forrest, Georges 28, 31

France

alliances, allies 33

France’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 132

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 33

assasination of 34

Freedman’s Pickaninnies 31–32

French 51st Infantry 120

French 170th Infantry 105, 119

French Flying Service x–xi, 60, 99, 105, 110

French Foreign Legion 2, 35, 36–60, 37, 70, 136

Marching Regiments 35

uniform of 36

French Hospital, NY 129

French Lafayette Corps x–xi, 2, 4

French Underground Resistance 113–117, 119, 122

G

Garroway, Dave 132, 133

Gartz, R. Craine 125

gas, poison 46–47, 51–52

Genet, Edmond 64, 75

Germany, and WWI 34

Girard, Colonel 77

Glasgow 23–24

Grand Duc, Le 109, 111

Great War, The. See also World War I

Gros, Edmund 75, 76, 77, 100, 101, 104, 110, 111, 118, 119

gypsies 10–11, 14

H

Hamburg, Germany 22

Harlem, NY 127

Hemingway, Ernest 109

Henriette, Marcelle Eugenie 108

Herrick, Myron T. 110–111

Hotel Claridge 107

Hôtel Dieu [Paris hospital] 57

J

James, June Jewitt 118

Jamestown, Virginia 18

Jimmy, Bullard’s pet monkey 78, 79, 80–81, 84, 87, 90, 92, 95, 96

death of 105

K

Kisling, Moise 61, 69, 103, 108

L

Lafayette Escadrille x–xi, 64, 75, 110

Lafayette Flying Corps x–xi, 4, 91, 110

Le Blanc, France 122

Legion of Honor 131–132

Leplanquais, George 113, 117, 119

Liverpool, England 24

Liverpool Stadium 26

Loire River 121

London, England 27–28

Lyons, France 57, 58

M

Manhattan 126–127

Marne River 35

“Marseillaise, La” 36

Marta Russ 20

Matthews, barber 16–17

McWilliams, Consul 124

Ménard, Victor 80, 81, 87, 99, 100, 102, 103

Metz, Germany (now France) 85

military service

World War II 119–122

Montgomery, Alabama 18

Mont-Saint-Eloi, France 43

Moreland, Travis 15–16

N

Navarin Farm 47–48

Nesme, Madame 58, 60

Neuilly, France 118

Newport News, Virginia 18–19

New York 127–136

New York Paris Hotel 130

New York’s Metropolitan Hospital 135

Nieuport 64, 78, 84, 87, 89, 92

Norfolk, Virginia 20

Nouvion, Commander 53

O

Orleans, France 121, 122

P

Paleolouge, Captain 53, 56

Paris, France 28, 31–32, 35, 36, 61, 69–70, 75, 78, 103, 106–119

Parsons, Ted 110

Penguin. See Bleriot

Perretti, Justin 114–116

Pfalz D.III 97, 98, 99

Picasso, Pablo 109

Pisard, Captain 84, 85, 86

Plessis Belleville, Le 77, 78

Poland 117

Porte D’Italie 119

Porter, Cole 109

posthumously awarded promotion 136–137

Princip, Gavrilo 34

R

racial differences, issues 6, 62, 70, 75, 102, 103, 110, 114, 122, 128, 130, 131

Red Cross 56, 57, 120, 126

Richmond, Virginia 18

Richthofen Flying Circus 92

Richthofen, Manfred, Baron von 88, 92

Robinson, Edward G. 109

Rockefeller Center 132

Rolieu. See Bleriot

Rotonde, La 61

Russia

alliances, allies 33, 34

S

Sarajevo, Bosnia 33

Sasser, Georgia 16

Scanlon, Bob 120, 129

Serbia 33, 34

Sinclaire, Reginald 75

slaves, slavery 5, 6

Smith, Ada Louise “Bricktop” 109

Somme front 36, 37

Souchez, France 44

Spa-85 91

SPAD 3–4, 80, 81, 84, 90–91, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97

SPAD S.VII 82

SPAD S.XIII 83

Spain 123, 126

Sparks, Colonel 125

Spector, Jack 127, 130

Squadron Spa-93 80

St. Andrews Bay, Florida 18

Stanley, Levy 14

Statue of Liberty 127

Staumann, Louis Albert de 108

Stevens, Columbus supervisor 6, 7

St. Jean de Luz 126

Stuka 120

Summers, Johnny 26–27

T

Terrell County Fair 17

Terrier, Cleopatre 113–114, 116, 119

Today Show 132

Tom and Emma, sharecroppers 13

Tourelles Barracks 36

Turner, Zacharias (family) 17–18

U

Underground/Resistance service. See French Underground Resistance

V

Vadalaincourt, France 91

Vaux, H. C. de 123–124

Verdun, battle of 51–54, 59, 63

Verdun, France 80, 85, 91, 121, 123

Vosges Mountains 46–54

Vouziers, France 47

W

Waller, Fats 112

Washington, D.C. 129

Welsh, Bill 26–27

Westphal, Captain 21–22

White, Gilbert 61, 69, 103, 108

Wood, Mary 13

World War II

beginning of 117

World War I (The Great War)

beginning of 33–34

end of 105

unofficial Christmas ceasefire 38

U.S. enters WWI 99

Z

Zelli, Joe 106–107

Zelli’s 107

Zeppelins 51