Flights for Freedom

The Great War saw armed combat take to the skies in a large way. Although the U.S. Army Air Service did not come into existence until 1918, brave American flyers were attached to aero-squadrons under command of the British RAF much earlier than that. This is the story of one of those daring flyers — "e;Petrol"e; Petronas — as he learns to master the undisciplined two-winged fighter called a Sopwit...