A little more than a decade after the Wright brothers' historic flight at Kittyhawk, the demands of war transformed the airplane into a weapon of...
C.O. 94th Pursuit Squadron ..... top American Ace of WWI, 26 victories Eddie Rickenbacker, was a successful race car driver, fighter pilot, airline...
The dimensions of World War I were, regarding the length of time and the number of engaged troops so large that it became obvious that the Golden and...
I love looking at medals ..... :) this is an exceptionally good page ... very informative !! Austro-Hungarian Orders and Decorations 1848-1918 The...
Thanks Gareth ! ... I missed that part off ! :rolleyes: It is indeed US Naval aviation !! Annie :)
Hi Keith ! Eric James Brindley Nicolson (1917 - 1945) - Find A Grave Memorial Annie
Mongolia was owned and operated by the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company and had a capacity of 1,818 passengers. She was built in 1903 by the New York...
About 23,000 Serbian boys found death during their flight out of Serbia in the terrible winter of 1915. To prevent falling in the hands of the...
Jane Arminda Delano Born at Townsend, New York, on March 12, 1862, she graduated from the Bellevue Hospital of Nursing, New York City, in 1886....
When the call to battle sounded in April 1917, the Navy air arm could muster at its one air station only 48 officers and 239 enlisted men with some...
In 1901 and 1908 the establishment of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps opened the door for women in the military but ever so slightly. It wasn't until...
The history of the "Hello Girls" begins in late 1917, when General Pershing's appeal for bilingual telephone-switchboard operators was published in...
Thought you might like this picture in Palestine John ! ... it's a Frank Hurley ... !
Frank Hurley is one of my favourites ... thought you might enjoy these !! :)
Here's something I didn't know ............... how awful that seems !! :( The most important German cemetery from the First World War lies in the...
I came across this that I was going to post ... thought maybe you'd like it !! smiley ! http://goose-lane.com/?p=754 Annie
Of course !! ... you do what you'd like to do Adrian !! smiley ! I wanted to change another heading too ... but I couldn't do it for some reason...
By the morning of 20th August 1914, General Dubail with his 1st Army and General de Castelnau with the 2nd Army, had exhausted themselves in...
Name: Oswald Boelcke Country: Germany Rank: Hauptmann Units: Jasta 2 Victories: 40 Date Of Birth: May 19, 1891 Place of Birth: Giebichstein,...
Hi Adrian ... I thought it was peculiar about the date on the headstone :confused: ... I got the information from here ... they got it from Wiki ......
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