Showing posts with label French Armée de l'Air. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Armée de l'Air. Show all posts

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.

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Tuesday, March 30, 1915. Germans fighting Arabs.