Charles Sweeny
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Charles Michael Sweeny was an American soldier of fortune, United States Army lieutenant colonel, French Foreign Legion officer, Polish army brigadier general, Royal Air Force group captain, and journ
Sweeny between c. 1915 to c. 1920
Front page of the Paris edition of Le Petit Journal, August 6, 1925. Translation: "The American volunteer pilots left yesterday for Morocco / Before departure: General Dumesnil gives the American colonel Sweeny a bon voyage toast."
Charles Francis Sweeny
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Charles Francis Sweeny was an American businessman and socialite who played a major role in the formation of the Eagle Squadrons, composed mostly of volunteer American pilots eager to fight in the Roy
Charles Sweeny
…He graduated from the University of Notre Dame. One nephew, Charles Francis Sweeny (1910–1993), was the first husband of Margaret Whigham; they married in 1933 and divorced in 1947. (Afterward, she married the Duke of Argyll and became…
Grave of Charles Francis Sweeny and his first wife Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey