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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Who Shot the Red Baron?
2018-04-21 00:20
So if Richthofen had been injured that badly in the air, the tri-plane would have been crashing out of control. The evidence instead suggests a forced landing, but a landing.
Now Entering the Final Year of the First Air War
2017-11-18 15:00
By the fall of 1918, the fortunes of German ground forces would be declining, but the German air force would have some of its best months of the war. September 1918 would show more downed Allied aircr...
Rickenbacker's Revenge
2017-10-14 14:11
"Instead they found a mudhole and a tough Swiss-German engineer with a grammar-school education and the grubbiest of chores for them to perform. They made sarcastic comments both behind my back and to...
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...
Ivy League Officers: Cost or Benefit to USAF? - 2016 Perspective
2016-08-19 12:39
Three out of four times Ivy Leaguers have a very, very tough time in the military. They have a lot of trouble suspending disbelief and simply learning the ropes of followership.
Ivy League Officers: Cost or Benefit to USAF? - 1917 Perspective
2016-08-08 16:18
"They feel that the training of officers for the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps of the United States Army is one of the most important fields of endeavor which the University could enter at the ...
