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Published Date:
Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:37:20 +0000
Blog Post Category:
Archives
April Fool's Day
Aviation
World War I
WWI
Description:
Most of the thousands of World War I photographs in the collections of the Air and Space Museum’s Archives Department are grimly utilitarian – aerial views of trenches, aircraft and details of their construction and the damage they sustained during dangerous missions. But the young pilots who flew those missions had a reputation for light-heartedness,&#160; &#160;<a href="http://blog.nasm.si.edu/archives/fooling-around-at-the-front/">...Continue Reading</a>
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Aircraft  Search this
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