Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War Literary Fiction The year 1917 was unlike

The year 1917 was unlike any other in American history

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by Modris Eksteins

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Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War Literary Fiction The year 1917 was unlikeDescription 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