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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Last Words of the Red Baron
2018-02-24 16:52
"I think of this war as it really is, not as the people at home imagine, with a Hoorah! and a roar. It is very serious, very grim..."
December 1917 Air War - Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New
2017-12-16 16:18
As the winter deepens, air traffic slows down. There is much rain and snow. Even on dry days the heavy clouds drift so low that no takeoffs are ordered. We sit around in our rooms.
Eugene Bullard vs. the Flying Circus
2017-10-06 14:04
This hurt me deeply. Then, as now, my love for my own country was strong. I got some comfort out of knowing that I was able to go on fighting on the same front and in the same cause as other citizens ...
Return of the Red Baron
2017-09-08 13:34
Failing to recognize this new and lasting symbol of the Red Baron could be deadly. Richthofen's sixtieth victory on 2 September had included an observer who, thinking he was seeing an approaching Sopw...
Nazgul, Defence of London, Aerobatics, and Air Forces, Part II
2017-08-09 15:22
"In the vast dog-fights that often developed, air fighting became an affair of fleeting brushes between flights of three or four planes held in tight tactical cohesion, with neither chance nor mood fo...
Quentin Roosevelt's Sneaky American Tactic
2017-05-09 17:44
An American president is supposed to be just one of the American people, and even more so his son. Realistically, though, the son of a president doesn't get to grow up like other people, and even a hu...
