Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War Literary Fiction By the time the war

By the time the war ended in 1918

by Modris Eksteins

The year 1917 was unlike any other in American history

World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons

and by the end of the war new military units such as the WAAC

Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War Literary Fiction By the time the warDescription by Paul R. Hare Hardcover Soon after entering the war in April 1917 American propaganda promised that she would `Darken the skies over Europe' by sending over `the Greatest Aerial Armada ever seen'. Encouraged by the French Government America promised to build no less than 22,000 aeroplanes within a year and to field, and to maintain, a force of 4,000 machines, all of the latest type, over the Western Front during 1918, not only to provide