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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
April 1918 - Rise of the Americans, Fall of the Red Baron
2018-04-14 00:12
100 years ago, the bullet that will kill the Red Baron has probably been cast, but...whose gun will it be loaded into?
More of the March 1918 Air War
2018-03-31 23:57
"And thus one of the world's most famous military insignia, the Hat-in-the-Ring, which became a part of my entire life from then on, was born."
The Russian Revolution in Aviation History
2017-10-28 14:30
"That is the one danger in Russia, for they have no fliers of their own, or as good as none at all. If a Russian flier appeared, he was sure to have bad luck and be shot down by his own men."
British Pronunciation Guide to World War 1
2017-07-19 15:00
Hall had pronounced Ypres the French way “which put me under suspicion as a ‘swanker.’”
Six Non-Combat Ways to Die in WW1 Aviation
2017-06-08 12:59
"It takes some time to fall three miles even at the top speed of a 220-hp engine. The dive kept the blaze away from him, but a backward glance informed Sumner that the fire was eating up the entire le...
100th Anniversary of US Entry into World War 1
2017-04-05 10:36
Eddie Rickenbacker, having toured the US as a race car celebrity explaining why we should be in the war, around this time almost died from a nicked artery during a tonsillectomy, and then tried to exp...
