Career
Born near Natchez, Mississippi, Fauntleroy served with Eddie Rickenbacker"s 94th Fighter Squadron on the Western Front in World War I.
Recruited by his fellow verteran Merian C. Cooper in 1919, he became one of the best pilots of the Polish 7th Air Escadrille, dubbed the Kościuszko Escadrille (the Kosciuszko Squadron, named for Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko).