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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Colorado Cowboy and WW1 Ace Frederick Libby Visits Ireland
2017-06-30 14:27
"I'm beginning to like the place. The country is beautiful. The rolling hills surrounding the village, with the sheep grazing about, is like a lovely picture."
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...
Birdstrikes and Other Hazards of World War 1 Aviation
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....
Hero of World War 1 Aviation - Wilbert White
2017-02-23 21:11
Wilbert White wanted to go to war. At least, he thought he ought to. His wife, unsurprisingly, didn't want him to, and presumably neither did his little boy and girl.
Cher Ami Was Not a Girl
2017-01-18 16:08
Pigeons don't come marked with Iron Crosses or cockades to show whether it's a friendly pigeon - so you shoot all of them. In fact, until aircraft markings got figured out, gunners tended to shoot all...
Bert Hall Is Not James Norman Hall, Though Both Were Lafayette Escadrille Pilots
2016-12-13 15:10
Wikipedia has the wrong Hall pictured as James Norman Hall!
