2017-05-23 17:56 The Red Baron greeted his father with "Hello Papa, I have just shot down an Englishman."

2017-05-09 17:44 An American president is supposed to be just one of the American people, and even more so his son. Realistically, though, the son of a president doesn't get to grow up like other people, and even a hu...

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...

2017-03-23 21:43 There were often nonindigenous species hanging around the field that weren't - exactly - wild: the pilot mascots such as Raoul Lufbery's lion cubs (and cubs don't stay little any more than kittens do....

2017-03-08 21:28 When Richthofen kept to his answer, the officer decided he had a braggart on his hands. Later on, the officer saw Richthofen was wearing a Pour le Merite ("Blue Max") medal, and "speechless with aston...

2017-02-08 20:54 The way to shoot down a balloon was with incendiary bullets, if the gas would ignite, which wasn't certain.