4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay

Summary

4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay is a news article^[1].

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• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's instance of is recorded as news article^[2].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's location is recorded as Paris^[3].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's language of work or name is recorded as English^[4].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's publication date is recorded as +1937-01-06T00:00:00Z^[5].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's distributed by is recorded as Associated Press^[6].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's main subject is recorded as Yankee Squadron^[7].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's main subject is recorded as Eddie August Schneider^[8].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's main subject is recorded as Bertrand Blanchard Acosta^[9].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's main subject is recorded as Frederic Ives Lord^[10].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's main subject is recorded as Gordon King Berry^[11].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's published in is recorded as The Indianapolis News^[12].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's title is recorded as 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay^[13].
• 4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's quotation or excerpt is recorded as Four disillusioned American aviators announced today they were through with Spain and, furthermore, they were through with civil wars. The quadrumvirate - 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 venture, said Schneider, "was purely business." They quit Spain after six weeks in the mountainous War zone of the age of the Basque Pyrenees and returned here proclaiming and intention to hurry back to America as fast as possible. Schneider told the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune "we quit because the Spanish government owes us $1,100." The flyers also protested they were given nothing except unarmed sports planes with which to fight, while Russian pilots were assigned "regular American army planes." The American war planes were said to be machines built in Russia through contracts giving the Soviet government permission to copy American models. The flyers said both the Socialists and Fascists air forces in Spain were staffed almost entirely by foreigners. The government, they added, seemed to be outnumbered in men and equipment everywhere, particularly in their sector. Acosta and Berry were to sail for New York where they left for the war November 11. Their companions made arrangements to follow shortly.^[14].

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4 American Pilots Quit Spanish War as Loyalists Fail to Pay's instance of is recorded as news article^[2].