You have probably never heard the name Frederic Ives Lord, but you should. He was a World War I flying ace, and a soldier who fought in numerous wars — and was from Manitowoc. Frederick was born ...
There’s a rare silent video featuring two supremely confident pilots smoking cigarettes and smiling for the camera at an airfield in Toul, France. The smaller man has a great smile.
I am searching for information on San Antonio native Edgar Gardner Tobin, the first Texas air ace in World War I. I know he ...
The character Snoopy from the comic strip “Peanuts” will be the star attraction of a free traveling exhibition running Feb. 8 ...
The 1926 film "The Flying Ace" will be screened with live musical accompaniment to mark Black History Month. The film is one ...
But unlike some early pilots of the First World ... combat flying. Filmmaker Rob Rapley explains how Eddie Rickenbacker came to be one of the most famous fighters of the Great War.
"Would I experience the same escapism and exhilaration that viewers in 1926 felt while watching?" he wondered. Here’s what he ...
The Royal Flying Corps, which became the Royal ... that compares with that with any of the great fighter aces of the first World war. But this pilot wasn’t British or French or German, he ...
The World War I flying ace of “Peanuts” fame will star in the traveling exhibition “Snoopy and the Red Baron” Feb. 8-May 4 at Crown Center.