Flying Squadron of America

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The Flying Squadron of America (sometimes called Hanly's Flying Squadron) was a temperance organization that staged a nationwide campaign to promote the temperance movement in the United States. It was informally organized by J. Frank Hanly after the National Temperance Council, and its goal was prohibition,^[1] specifically "A Saloonless Nation by 1920" as its member Ira Landrith stated^[2] The Squadron was a non-political and inter-denominational organization.^[3] In its members' own words, their "immediate and sole object is the inauguration and execution of a great forward movement for the national destruction of the liquor traffic."^[4]