World War I Soldier. Aviator. He was the son of Albert Rivers Genêt and Martha Rodman Fox. The great-great grandson of Edmond Charles Genêt, the French Republic's ambassador to the fledgling United States, he was a member of the French Foreign Legion from 1914 to 1916. In 1916 he became a member of the Lafayette Escadrille. The Escadrille consisted of American aviators who came to France's aid in World War I before the United States officially entered the war in 1917. His diaries were edited and published as "An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genêt, Lafayette Escadrille." Genet died in one of the Escadrille's sorties against the Germans in World War I. He was the first American flier to die after the United States declared war against Germany. The Edmond Charles Clinton Genêt Memorial was erected by his maternal grandparents in Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, Pennsylvania.
World War I Soldier. Aviator. He was the son of Albert Rivers Genêt and Martha Rodman Fox. The great-great grandson of Edmond Charles Genêt, the French Republic's ambassador to the fledgling United States, he was a member of the French Foreign Legion from 1914 to 1916. In 1916 he became a member of the Lafayette Escadrille. The Escadrille consisted of American aviators who came to France's aid in World War I before the United States officially entered the war in 1917. His diaries were edited and published as "An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genêt, Lafayette Escadrille." Genet died in one of the Escadrille's sorties against the Germans in World War I. He was the first American flier to die after the United States declared war against Germany. The Edmond Charles Clinton Genêt Memorial was erected by his maternal grandparents in Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, Pennsylvania.
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