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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Colorado Cowboy and WW1 Ace Frederick Libby Visits Ireland
2017-06-30 14:27
"I'm beginning to like the place. The country is beautiful. The rolling hills surrounding the village, with the sheep grazing about, is like a lovely picture."
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...
Hero of World War 1 Aviation - Wilbert White
2017-02-23 21:11
Wilbert White wanted to go to war. At least, he thought he ought to. His wife, unsurprisingly, didn't want him to, and presumably neither did his little boy and girl.
Cher Ami Was Not a Girl
2017-01-18 16:08
Pigeons don't come marked with Iron Crosses or cockades to show whether it's a friendly pigeon - so you shoot all of them. In fact, until aircraft markings got figured out, gunners tended to shoot all...
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!
