ABSTRACT
Eagle Squadrons For more than a year before the United States en tered World War II, some of its young men vio lated the U.S. Neutrality Acts (q.v.) and went through Canada to enlist in the Royal Air Force to fight Germany alongside the British. During the Battle of Britain (q.v.), the RAF accepted a few young American pilots but the effort was not well organized. Nonetheless, eight Americans fought in the RAF during the Battle of Britain, most of them serving with Number 609 Squadron. At first incor porated into all-British units, as more pilots vol unteered for the RAF, the British decided to orga nize three squadrons of Americans, the so-called Eagle Squadrons.
