Found this interesting.
https://www.airspacemag.com/military...tsd-180967710/
mannock.jpg
Found this interesting.
https://www.airspacemag.com/military...tsd-180967710/
mannock.jpg
An excellent article Hawk.
These guys flew rickety, unarmoured machines with no parachute in freezing conditions where u were just as likely to die in a training accident as in combat.
WW2 gets the majority of attention but this pioneering era of air warfare in WW1 is a fascinating, albeit tragic history as well.
A good documentary covering some of this is Aces Falling https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo
There is also an excellent 4 part documentary series by Jan Goldstein "The Great War in the Air, Aces of he Western Front: A Pictorial History" https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo
No film, all done with still pics but worth a watch.
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An excellent article, thank you for sharing Torian.
I do believe that WWI was the first of a new era of combat, also in a turning point in history, for the better and for the worse.
Its positioning, and the rarity of the discovery of information from the men leaves a raw, plain, and utterly genuine view of what a man felt, and could not, can not, help feeling in such circumstances.
These notes are untouched by any sort of bias, and are just plain, strait forward and blunt. As anything trying to prove a point, or simply show the truth should be.
The truth is often times blunt, because it is fact, and not fiction.
Also PTSD for WWII Aces.
For example, 'Buzz' Beurling... the Canadian Malta Ace had regular screaming nightmares where he re-experienced the moment when his 20mm shells blew the head off an Italian pilot as that pilot looked back at Beurling as he closed on the Italian's 8 o'clock.
Both Wars would have been very troubling for pilots, but most of the opportunities for chivalry found in the First would have vanished in the second.
Now I would dare say that no ordinary man would find a single opportunity for any courtousy toward any enemy in the air.
But to be sure, the weight and stress of the kill or be instinct, or rather knowledge, was damn evident in the Second War, and sure as anything would not even be considered as though it were some sort of question now.
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