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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Hire a Farmer to Fix WWI Aircraft
2017-05-26 12:02
If you wanted to be able to fix an airplane 100 years ago, you pretty much needed the skills to build it in the first place; sometimes there wasn't much difference between building and rebuilding. All...
Quentin Roosevelt's Sneaky American Tactic
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...
World War 1 Airpower and the Conduct of War
2017-05-08 17:09
And the front-line aviators moved around a lot. One group of squadrons moved to a different airfield three times a month, on average, in 1917. (You can't just return an airplane part, shrug your shoul...
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...
Irish Ace of World War 1: Mick Mannock
2017-03-18 21:34
Mannock wasn't impressed with those who were in the military for some other reason than fighting. As a sapper he wanted to blow up Germans, as a pilot he wanted to shoot them down.
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 ...
