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The American Flyers Memorial (sculptured by Józef Starzyński in 1925) at the Łyczakowski Cemetery in Lviv. Both the memorial and the graves were destroyed by Soviet bulldozers around the summer of 1969. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the 90's they were rebuilt by Poles. Recently the Ukrainian government finally gave the permission to restore the American flyer statue too.

"TO AMERICAN HEROES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR POLAND 1919-1920" The epitaph says: For American killed when defending Poland in 1919-1920 - Officers Pilots of the Tadeusz Kosciuszko Fighter Squadron: Edmund P. Graves – lieutenant - born 1891 Boston, MA, shot down 22 XI 1919 in Lwów, Arthur H. Kelly – captain - born 1890 Richmond, VA, shot down 16 VII 1920 near Łuck, G. Mac Callun – lieutenant - born 1890, Detroit, MI, shot down 31 VIII 1920 near Lwów.

Polish 7th Air Escadrille, better known as the Kościuszko Squadron, was one of the units of the Polish Air Force during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921. Formed in late 1918 in Kraków, it was soon moved to Lwów, where it took active part in fighting of the Polish-Ukrainian War until June 1919. The units was re-formed in late 1919, when Poland was struggling to maintain its independence as the veil of Communism heavily shrouded neighboring Russia. A group of American pilots embraced the Polish cause and volunteered for service with the Polish forces. Sixteen Americans joined four Poles and a Canadian pilot in the reorganized 7th Squadron. The Americans included Merian C. Cooper, a former U.S. Air Service pilot in France and POW in a German camp, and Cedric E. Fauntleroy, an experienced WWI pilot who had served on the Western Front.

The squadron emblem, a distinctive Polish four-cornered cap and crossed scythes on a field of thirteen stars, combined powerful Polish and American symbols. The cap and scythes commemorated Kosciuszko's famous victory over the Russians in 1794, which owed much to the local peasantry's gallant charge, and the 13 stars represented the original American colonies.

The Kościuszko Squadron was first used in the Kiev Offensive in April 1920. Its aircraft were Albatros D.III fighters, supplemented by Ansaldo A.1 Balilla. Since there were almost no air encounters, primary missions became reconnaissance and ground attack. Most of the Squadron's flights were directed against Semyon Budionny's First Cavalry Army. The Squadron developed a tactic of low-altitude machine-gun strafing runs. Merian Cooper was shot down but survived. It is said, Budionny had put half a million rubles on Captain Cooper's head, but when he was caught by the Cossacks he managed to convince them that he was a corporal (a few months later he escaped from a POW camp near Moscow to Latvia). In August 1920 the Kościuszko Squadron took part in the defense of Lwów, and after the Battle of Warsaw it participated in the Battle of Komarów which crippled Budionny's cavalry. Most active days were August 16 and 17, when Escadrille, reduced to 5 uninjured pilots, fulfilled 18 ground attack missions each day.

In 1920 the Kościuszko Squadron made over 400 combat flights. Cedric Fauntleroy and Merian C. Cooper received Poland's highest military decoration: the Virtuti Militari.