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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
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 ...
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.’”
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...
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 ...
Hope for Problem Children - Bullard, Libby, and More
2017-01-11 15:59
Suddenly the door opened to admit a vision of military splendor such as one does not see twice in a lifetime. It was Eugene Bullard.
One Hundred Years Ago Today Was Raoul Lufbery's Sixth Victory
2016-12-27 15:35
By the end of his life his confirmed victory tally was 16, but his own tally was 75 victories, and those who knew him believed the higher total - and that trust in his word was itself an honor not eve...
