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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Stephen Thompson and Ted Parsons, the First Aero, and the Lafayette Escadrille
2016-12-23 15:24
Remember, Pancho Villa's attack on New Mexico was in its way worse than the Pearl Harbor attack. New Mexico wasn't just a territory, it was a state of the US - and had been that way for all of four ye...
Bert Hall Is Not James Norman Hall, Though Both Were Lafayette Escadrille Pilots
2016-12-13 15:10
Wikipedia has the wrong Hall pictured as James Norman Hall!
SPAD XIII T-Shirt and Mutiny on the Bounty
2016-11-29 14:51
They were more impressive by far than any other airplane, any other automobile, any other piece of equipment I had ever seen. This new Spad would mean the difference between life and death.
New Tenth Mountain T-Shirt and Modified Designs
2016-11-28 14:45
So it's not a World War 1 story, but the story of how the veterans who trained in Camp Hale came back to the Southwest and got a new industry going is also great, even if it's from that other war...
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?
Red Barons First Victory - September 17, 1916
2016-09-17 13:26
The engine was shot to pieces, and both crewmen were severely wounded. The observer had died instantly, and the pilot died while being transported to the nearest field hospital. Later I erected a grav...
