Tag: First World War
The First Dogfighters – How History’s Earliest Combat Pilots Improvised Aerial Warfare
“Many of the principles of air to air combat still in use today were improvised on the fly (literally) by pilots who were making it up as they went along.” THE WORLD’S MILITARIES were among…
‘The Wipers Times’ — Soldiers’ own newspaper let Tommies laugh at trench warfare
“Far from being an official mouthpiece of the British war effort, The Wipers Times mainly featured poems, jokes and short articles satirizing the futility of trench life.” IT’S BEEN SAID that war consists of long periods boredom…
