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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Stephen Thompson Scores One for the US
2018-02-03 16:45
The first all-American victory by the first all-American pilot! Well...no; he was in a French plane, which he was invited up in while visiting a French squadron, and he wasn't flying it; he was the ob...
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...
Did Anyone Ever Know Raoul Lufbery? Notes from Dawn Patrol Rendezvous
2016-12-05 15:00
In those days, a man with an aircraft, and his mechanic, were treated like royalty, and Mark became Raoul's very best friend - the only man who might have been able to claim to know him.
More About Kiffin Rockwell
2016-10-20 14:17
Great post about the Lafayette Escadrille, Kiffin Rockwell's victory, and the "Bottle of Death" at Roads to the Great War today.
Remembering Kiffin Yates Rockwell of the Lafayette Escadrille
2016-09-23 13:29
In reality, Rockwell's life was much more interesting: in a generation that believed in causes, he had one, and fought and died for it.
