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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
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?
Great Aces Grounded for Ear Pain - Udet and Rickenbacker
2018-04-14 00:04
"My new Spad had an altitude of 22,000 feet; try that sometime with an earache."
More of the March 1918 Air War
2018-03-31 23:57
"And thus one of the world's most famous military insignia, the Hat-in-the-Ring, which became a part of my entire life from then on, was born."
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.
Last Words of the Red Baron
2018-02-24 16:52
"I think of this war as it really is, not as the people at home imagine, with a Hoorah! and a roar. It is very serious, very grim..."
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.
