Study Questions
1. For what reasons was World War I more deadly than previous wars? How was this apparent to Mildred Aldrich? What other information do you learn from this essay about the brutality of the war?
2. Why did President Woodrow Wilson embrace neutrality at the outbreak of World War I?
3. Why did some Americans decide to fight for the Allies before America entered the war?
4. What was the difference between the Lafayette Flying Corps and the Lafayette Escadrille? Why was the Lafayette Escadrille founded?
5. How were young Americans taught the new skill of flying planes in combat?
6. For novice pilots at the birth of the aviation age, flight was little short of miraculous. Give some examples of their sense of wonder.
7. Describe the wartime experiences of these American airmen: Norman Prince, James Norman Hall, Raoul Lufbery, and Edmund Genet.
8. James Hall said that Americain was a “magic word” in France. Why would that be true?
1. For what reasons was World War I more deadly than previous wars? How was this apparent to Mildred Aldrich? What other information do you learn from this essay about the brutality of the war?
2. Why did President Woodrow Wilson embrace neutrality at the outbreak of World War I?
3. Why did some Americans decide to fight for the Allies before America entered the war?
4. What was the difference between the Lafayette Flying Corps and the Lafayette Escadrille? Why was the Lafayette Escadrille founded?
5. How were young Americans taught the new skill of flying planes in combat?
6. For novice pilots at the birth of the aviation age, flight was little short of miraculous. Give some examples of their sense of wonder.
7. Describe the wartime experiences of these American airmen: Norman Prince, James Norman Hall, Raoul Lufbery, and Edmund Genet.
8. James Hall said that Americain was a “magic word” in France. Why would that be true?