This is the second part of a series. In the spring of 1925, a shortage of helium kept the U.S. built USS Shenandoah in her Lakehurst, N.J. hangar. The valuable gas had been given to the newer, ...
Lieutenant Edward Packe flew over the Western Front battlefield in a two-seater BE2c biplane at 7.30am on July 1, 1916. He was shot in the buttocks by a German fighter at 2,000ft.