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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Rain and Frederick Libby's First Victory
2017-01-27 20:42
Libby was trained for 30 minutes on how to use a machine gun, then he was shown how to use the gun in the airplane, then sent up in the airplane to try it. The instructor forgot to tell him how to cha...
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...
Hope for Problem Children - Bullard, Libby, and More
2017-01-11 15:59
Suddenly the door opened to admit a vision of military splendor such as one does not see twice in a lifetime. It was Eugene Bullard.
A German Spy Abroad
2017-01-04 15:55
A Los Angeles reporter made up a story about how he was actually Baron Edward von Rickenbacher trying to prove himself in America to his strict Prussian father. (Fake news isn't new either....)
James Norman Hall, the SPAD, and the Bounty
2017-01-02 15:38
James Norman Hall bicycled from London to Scotland to meet his favorite author but was afraid to knock on the door when he got there.
One Hundred Years Ago Today Was Raoul Lufbery's Sixth Victory
2016-12-27 15:35
By the end of his life his confirmed victory tally was 16, but his own tally was 75 victories, and those who knew him believed the higher total - and that trust in his word was itself an honor not eve...
