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Udet Shoots Down Wanamaker - July 2, 1918

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Udet Shoots Down Wanamaker - July 2, 1918

Yet it was good that "we can now shake hands and show the American youth that honest enemies can become honest friends when the fighting is over."

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Leaflet Bombing, Fighter Pilots, and Removing the Hun

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Leaflet Bombing, Fighter Pilots, and Removing the Hun

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."

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Douglas Campbell - First All-American Ace

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Douglas Campbell - First All-American Ace

"Lieutenant Campbell learned to fly alone on a fast scout machine—a feat I do not remember any other American pilot having duplicated."

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The Worst Way to Die: To Fall, or to Burn?

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The Worst Way to Die: To Fall, or to Burn?

It was not quite one month after the Red Baron's death and ceremonious burial by his enemies, that America's Ace of Aces was laid to rest among a "huge pyramid" of flowers, with "hundreds of officers from all branches of the service" in attendance.

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Eventful Days for the 94th Aero Squadron

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Eventful Days for the 94th Aero Squadron

The stripped Nieuport wing assumed the flying characteristics of a brick.

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