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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Some Brit Shot Down the Red Baron
2017-03-08 21:28
When Richthofen kept to his answer, the officer decided he had a braggart on his hands. Later on, the officer saw Richthofen was wearing a Pour le Merite ("Blue Max") medal, and "speechless with aston...
Hero of World War 1 Aviation - Wilbert White
2017-02-23 21:11
Wilbert White wanted to go to war. At least, he thought he ought to. His wife, unsurprisingly, didn't want him to, and presumably neither did his little boy and girl.
9 Spectacular Ways to Die in World War 1 Aviation
2017-02-01 20:49
The Allies felt that parachutes could cause a pilot to abandon a plane while it could still be saved, and planes were in shorter supply than pilots.
Rain and Frederick Libby's First Victory
2017-01-27 20:42
Libby was trained for 30 minutes on how to use a machine gun, then he was shown how to use the gun in the airplane, then sent up in the airplane to try it. The instructor forgot to tell him how to cha...
Twelve Days of Aerial Combat
2016-12-23 15:30
And one Nieuport in a pine tree.
Remembering Kiffin Yates Rockwell of the Lafayette Escadrille
2016-09-23 13:29
In reality, Rockwell's life was much more interesting: in a generation that believed in causes, he had one, and fought and died for it.
