Knights Without Parachutes — kiffin rockwell

Great post about the Lafayette Escadrille, Kiffin Rockwell's victory, and the "Bottle of Death" at Roads to the Great War today.

These are highlights from an article about Kiffin Yates Rockwell that was sent to email subscribers. Of the Lafayette Escadrille pilots - American pilots fighting for France before America entered the war - Kiffin Rockwell was not the first to die. That was Victor Chapman on 24 June 1916. But as any branding expert could tell you, a memorable name sticks in the mind better (see here for what it feels like to be named Kiffin), and more importantly, on 13 May Rockwell had scored the first aerial victory for the Lafayette Escadrille, the first victory to an American pilot.If Hollywood made a movie that stuck...