Paul Leo Ortego was one of the first to enlist when President Woodrow Wilson declared the United States was entering WWI in ...
The FE2 was a two-seater with the observer sitting in the nose of the nacelle and the pilot sitting above and behind. The observer was armed with one .303 Lewis Machine Gun firing forward.
Toward the end of World War I, King George VI served with the Royal Naval Air Service. He was appointed Officer in Charge of ...
THE CWGC is a global organisation, caring for war graves at 23,000 locations in more than 150 countries and territories, writes Eleanor Phillips.
Dating to 1917, the bomber was sported by WW1 and WW2 fighter pilots, who staved off high-altitude chills in sturdy designs. In recent months the classic, knit-cuff style has popped up on runways ...
The world's first control tower was announced on February 25, 1920. At the time, the United Kingdom's Air Ministry called it ...
Born in France in 1854, Alexander Coeur later immigrated to Nova Scotia, where he met and married Nellie Harrigan. The newly ...
Barely a year before, his adoptive father Leopold—a Jewish convert to Christianity decorated for his service in the trenches of WWI ... gun” competition with two fellow Tuskegee pilots ...
I remember my first sight of the shop and it shocked me,” he recalled. “It was in dry dock for repairs, just coming home from ...
I wrote about my great-uncle Foster Stevens, who was killed nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World ...