The victory coincided with a triumph by the American Expeditionary Force at St Mihiel and taken with the successful Battle of Epehy helped to convince commanders to press ahead against German defensive positions.
Recalled from their leave to take part in the Battle of St Mihiel, they await orders to attack, 'to again face death, riding in the clouds'.
The story, overly-melodramatic and quite unconvincing, is clearly of secondary importance, a means of linking the exciting action sequences -- the air battle with the flying circus, the attack on German observation balloons, the final aerial duel and the dramatic re-enactment of the Battle of St Mihiel, for which the army created a five-acre facsimile of the battlefield and provided tanks and over 5,000 infantrymen as extras.
Just as the unit's namesake, Lafayette stood with Washington from Valley Forge to Yorktown, the men of the Escadrille stood by the French from their inception through the horrors of the Great War from Verdun to St Mihiel. This display mirrors the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial established after the war just outside Paris at Marnes-la-Coquette.