Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Wednesday, April 1, 1915. Improving airborne lethality.

Aviator Garros before the war.

French fighter pilot Lieutenant Roland Garros scored the first areal kill by firing a machine gun through a tractor propeller.

His propeller.

He was shot down and killed on October 5, 1918, just a month before the end of the war.

Last edition:

Tuesday, March 30, 1915. Germans fighting Arabs.

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