Ironwood Daily Globe/1937/4 Disillusioned Yank Airmen Desert Spain

4 Disillusioned Yank Airmen Desert Spain (1937)

related authors: Eddie August Schneider.

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940), Bert Acosta, Frederick Lord, and Gordon Berry as subjects of an article written by the Associated Press and published in the Ironwood Daily Globe of Ironwood, Michigan on January 6, 1937.

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4 Disillusioned Yank Airmen Desert Spain. Paris, France; January 6, 1937 (Associated Press) Four disillusioned American aviators announced today they were through with Spain and furthermore, they were through with civil wars. The four - Bert Acosta, Frederick Lord, Gordon Berry and Eddie Schneider - had led the Spanish socialist government's "Yankee squadron" on the Basque front in the far north. But, they said, they were not paid, and money was their only reason for joining up. The flyers protested they were given nothing but unarmed sports planes with which to fight, while Russian pilots were assigned "regular American army planes." The American warplanes were said to be machines built in Russia through contracts giving the Soviet government permission to copy American models. The flyers said both the socialist and fascist air forces in Spain were staffed almost entirely by foreigners.

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