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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Why Lufbery's Gradual Introduction to Combat Worked
2018-03-14 23:40
The stories of great ace against great ace were few, partly because aces hunted like predators, chasing by preference those who were young, inexperienced, and lost.
Pilot Training 1918
2018-01-13 16:36
Finally, after about a year of scheming, he was at the front. But he didn't yet know how much he didn't know.
Rickenbacker's Revenge
2017-10-14 14:11
"Instead they found a mudhole and a tough Swiss-German engineer with a grammar-school education and the grubbiest of chores for them to perform. They made sarcastic comments both behind my back and to...
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...
Elliott White Springs - Great Pilot, Clever Writer, You Wouldn't Want Him With Your Daughter
2017-03-02 21:22
Some of his quotes were clear premonitions of his impending death...except that, to his surprise, he lived, spoiling the romantic tragedy. To everyone else's surprise, when his father died he stopped ...
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!
