Knights Without Parachutes

We've added a new t-shirt design celebrating the Tenth Mountain Division. So it's not a World War 1 story, but the story of how the veterans who trained in Camp Hale came back to the Southwest and got a new industry going is also great, even if it's from that other war...you know, part 2 of the Great War. Designer Ewan Tallentire also made a couple modifications while reprinting the Udet (Du Doch Nicht!!) shirt and the Sturmpanzerwagen shirt. So now we have some of the old and some of the new; be sure to order just the size ("L")...

America tries out airpower - 1916 It was 100 years ago. WWI had been going on for a couple years already. And America finally launched American airplanes, with American pilots, in support of Black Jack Pershing, against a foreign country.  But great war stories are stranger than fiction, so you should know these flights weren't launched from France. Or Britain. They were launched from New Mexico. And they weren't against Germany, but against Old Mexico. Well, sort of. Apparently between Pancho Villa, the Mexican government, and the American government, each had some reason to consider the other two to be...

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

At the Dawn Patrol Rendezvous, during a meeting of the League of World War I Aviation Historians, William Nungesser spoke about his famous relative Charles Nungesser including whatever happened to his attempt to fly the Atlantic. Nungesser was one of those in a close race with Lindbergh, who took off ahead of him, but disappeared somewhere and was never heard from again. Or was he? In what makes a very believable conspiracy theory, William Nungesser revealed that 30 years of research on his relative led him to an island off the coast of Newfoundland where Charles Nungesser presumably went down, but nobody knew...