A group of smiling American airmen, all volunteers who joined the Royal Air Force and formed their own "Eagle Squadron," seen at an R.A.F. airfield, somewhere in England, on March 13, 1941, with one of their fighter planes in background. They are left to right; Pilot Officer Charles Edward Bateman, of San Gabriel, California; Pilot Officer William Henry Nichols, of San Carlos, California; Pilot Officer Stanley Michel Kolendorski, of Lakehurst, New Jersey; Squadron- leader W.E.G. Taylor, of New York City, Commanding-Officer of the Squadron; Pilot Officer Andrew Mamedoff, of Thompson, Connecticut; Pilot Officer Fugene Quimby Tobin of Los Angeles, California; Pilot Officer Nathaniel Maranz, of New York City; Pilot Officer Luke Elbert Allen, of Ignatio, Colorado, unknown, man behind also unknown, Pilot Officer Gregory Augustus Daymond, of San Francisco, and Pilot Officer Sam Alfred Mauriello, of Astoria, Long Island, New York.
