American Pilots
The only African-American pilot to serve during World War I.
Who was Eugene Bullard?
The act of attacking with a machine gun from a low-lying aircraft.
What is strafe?
A battle between fighter planes
What is a dogfight?
Congress appropriated $13.2 million dollars to build up this.
What is the Aviation Service? (equal to $277 million today).
Russia, France, Serbia and Britain prior to WWI
Who were the Allied Forces?
American pilots who joined the French Air Service in order to fly aircraft in World War I.
Who were the members of the Lafayette Escadrille?
The role of aviation prior to World War I.
What is aerial reconnaissance?
To set aside for a specific use.
What is appropriate?
This conflict began on 28 Jun 1914 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria.
What is World War I?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey prior to WWI
Who were the Central Powers?
This airman had 17 combat victories during World War I.
Who was Raoul Lufbery?
These were used to counter the abilities of enemy aircraft.
What are machine guns?
These went from 10,000 feet to 24,000 feet during World War I.
What are maximum aircraft altitudes?
Congress appropriated $64 million in 1917 to fund these.
What are airplanes? (equals $1.3 Billion today)
This name was given to German Submarines.
What are U-Boats?
Known as America's Ace of Aces, this airman rose to the rank of Colonel in the US Army. He also relied on this mechanical aptitude to keep airplane machine guns from jamming.
Who was Edward Rickenbacker?
The invention of the machine guns for airplanes led to these notable aerial confrontations?
What are dogfights?
By 1918 these three specialized types of aircraft had emerged.
What are the fighter, the observation aircraft, and the bomber?
This famous general was appointed Chief of the Air Service.
Who was Brigadier General Billy Mitchell?
A small squadron of planes.
What is an escadrille?
This airman holds a record for shooting down 15 balloons and 3 airplanes during World War I.
Who was Frank Luke?
In 1915, Germans used these to attain strategic aims.
What are long-range raids?
This invention was a game changer for the way nations thought about and conducted warfare.
What is the airplane?
BGen Mitchell believed that this could be by targeting supply chains, railroad, communications nodes, and airfields with this that victory could be achieved.
What is aerial bombardment?
An automatic rifle that uses belt-fed ammunition.
What is a machine gun?