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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Who Shot the Red Baron?
2018-04-21 00:20
So if Richthofen had been injured that badly in the air, the tri-plane would have been crashing out of control. The evidence instead suggests a forced landing, but a landing.
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 on Stephen Thompson's First Air Victory
2018-02-26 17:00
If he got enthralled with the scenery and forgot to keep breathing he started to feel the effects of oxygen deprivation.
Volunteers Replicating 1917 Airplanes in 2017
2017-12-15 15:43
In many cases volunteers are some of the greatest experts in the field, retirees doing for free what they've already spent decades being paid for.
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...
World War I Aerial Adventure Written by a Pilot
2017-09-16 13:43
Real adventure stories are few and far between, and hardly ever happen to the same person...except in a very few periods in history involving exceptional circumstances and exceptional people, such as ...
