An article in Alaska Dispatch News explores the evolution of aviation during the First World War, and the young Americans who served in air combat missions before the United States joined the war in 1917.
Author Michael Carey writes: “The Europeans were the leaders — they were performing combat flying before the United States entered the war in April 1917. But a few Americans intoxicated with flight did not wait to discover whether Uncle Sam would join the conflict. In the days after the shooting began in the summer of 1914, they were off to fly for France in the Lafayette Escadrille.”
Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News.
Posted by: Éadaoin Hegarty, Centenary News