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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
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...
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!
New Tenth Mountain T-Shirt and Modified Designs
2016-11-28 14:45
So it's not a World War 1 story, but the story of how the veterans who trained in Camp Hale came back to the Southwest and got a new industry going is also great, even if it's from that other war...
What the First Aero Squadron Did First
2016-11-10 14:20
The last time the Continental U.S. was invaded by a foreign army prior to the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, was the 1916 Pancho Villa raid on Columbus.
Fighter Pilots, Homebuilt Aircraft, and Great War Stories
2016-07-01 16:30
The more we learned the more we thought that other people should know about the Parks family and their collection.
