Flyboys PC

In 1914 "The Great War" - WWI - 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 - a squadron of only 38 - became known as the Lafayette Escadrille. This is their story. Forced to abandon his family'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't realize was that they were about to embark on a great romantic adventure becoming the world's first combat pilots.