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I was so fortunate to stream this last night, through KC FilmFest International. Producers Glenshaw, Patterson and Greer tell a grand story, and draw viewers into the lives of young Americans who are recognizable today, even for their distance in time and circumstance. Reenacted scenes do not detract from, and are well integrated with contemporary film, letters and commentary from family members and French fliers who preserve the memory of this unit. The archival footage from Escadrille airfields in France is amazingly crisp and immediate. It makes a great complement to Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old," the air war being one of many strands Jackson said he wasn't able to address in that transforming reconstruction.