Plural of escadrille; multiple squadrons or small fleets of military aircraft or naval vessels.
French plural of 'escadrille.' Maintains the French plural form in English military terminology.
When historians talk about multiple flying units from WWI, they use escadrilles to evoke that romantic, dangerous era of early aviation when pilots were heroes partly because flying itself was barely survivable.
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