Documentary film The Millionaire's Unit to be screening at Greenwich Historical Society

The documentary film The Millionaires’ Unit is the story of an elite group of college students from Yale who formed a private air militia in preparation for America’s entry into WWI. Known as the First Yale Unit and dubbed “the millionaires’ unit” by the New York press, they became the founding squadron of the U.S. Naval Air Reserve and were among the first from the United States to enter the Great War. Using the squadron members’ letters and diaries, the documentary chronicles the coming of age of these young pioneers against the backdrop of an event that signaled America’s emergence as a world power. The film focuses on their service and sacrifice and chronicles a great, untold chapter in American aviation.

The documentary was inspired by the book The Millionaires’ Unit by Marc Wortman and was seven years in development and production by co-producers Ron King and Darroch Greer. It is being presented to the public to commemorate the centennial of World War I.

Thursday, January 29, 2015, 3:00 to 5:00 pm
Members: $10; nonmembers: $15
Ticket includes free admission to the exhibitionGreenwich Faces the Great War in the Storehouse Gallery

Greenwich Historical Society, Vanderbilt Education Center
39 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, CT 06807
call 203-869-6899 for tickets or information or visit www.greenwichhistory.org