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...

2017-05-23 17:56 The Red Baron greeted his father with "Hello Papa, I have just shot down an Englishman."

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...

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...

2017-03-30 21:49 "To the soldiery bound to the slime and carnage of the trenches the occupants of the glinting specks duelling high in the heavens were as beings of another world."

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.