All this is background to explain why Eddie Rickenbacker's ideas about guns today receive a, "well yeah, of course!" reaction but were radical ideas at the time.
In July, England lost two of its greatest aces, both working-class socialist Irishmen, James McCudden, and his student and friend Edward "Mick" Mannock.
Udet made many friends of his enemies between the wars, and this one sent him a gift fifteen years later, through the famous interwar aviator Roscoe Turner. It was one of the leaflets, "the last of his supply, and he forgot to throw it at me in 1918."
