Knights Without Parachutes

A Blog of Great War Stories

More on Stephen Thompson's First Air Victory
2018-02-26 17:00 If he got enthralled with the scenery and forgot to keep breathing he started to feel the effects of oxygen deprivation.
Irish Ace of World War 1: Mick Mannock
2017-03-18 21:34 Mannock wasn't impressed with those who were in the military for some other reason than fighting. As a sapper he wanted to blow up Germans, as a pilot he wanted to shoot them down.
Popping Balloons in World War 1
2017-02-08 20:54 The way to shoot down a balloon was with incendiary bullets, if the gas would ignite, which wasn't certain.
9 Reasons to Study World War 1
2016-10-04 13:48 Calculate the miles of trenches across Europe. Did you include both sides? Did you include the front trenches and the back trenches with rooms in them?
Dangerous Jobs That People Think Are Safe and Easy
2016-08-31 12:54 But flying killed more pilots than the enemy did, and a ferry pilot was often bringing an airplane into a combat area - without guns. So the ferry pilot had most of the dangers of any combat pilot, wi...

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