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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
January 1918 - Flu Season Begins, for THE Flu
2018-01-27 16:45
That first wave of the flu left behind a benefit that would only be recognized in hindsight, as victims of the spring's flu showed greater resistance in the plague yet to come.
Now Entering the Final Year of the First Air War
2017-11-18 15:00
By the fall of 1918, the fortunes of German ground forces would be declining, but the German air force would have some of its best months of the war. September 1918 would show more downed Allied aircr...
The Battle of Georgia: A World at War with the Flu
2017-06-22 14:12
The Great War was far away and long forgotten in rural California, at least before the US got involved. That was the era when my grandfather, Jack, came of age.
World War 1's Old Soldiers From Cornell
2016-10-11 13:54
Classes of '80s and '90s; a hundred years ago you might have been in WWI!
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?
Edward Tinkham, Cornell's Unofficial War Recruiting Department
2016-09-08 13:08
Each time he ended, there was a deep silence, and then some one would say, "Count me in, Tinkham," or "Would I be good enough for the job?" When Cornell gave him to the war, she gave of her very best....
