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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1409726" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>USA wasn't the only coutry that didn't use many parachutes SoB.</p><p>I read a book once, called <em>No Parachute.A fighter pilot in WW1</em></p><p>RAF pilot and among other things, he lamented that balloon observers had parachutes but fighter pilots did not. </p><p>an excerpt:</p><p><em>Rising to the rank of air vice-marshal, Gould Lee never forgot the RFC's needless sacrifices - and in a trio of trenchant appendices he examines, with the mature judgement of a senior officer of the RAF and a graduate of the Staff and Imperial Defence Colleges, <u><strong>the failure of the Army High Command to provide both efficient aeroplanes until mid-1917 and parachutes throughout the war</strong></u>, and General Trenchard's persistence in a costly and largely ineffective conception of the air offensive.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1409726, member: 18945"] USA wasn't the only coutry that didn't use many parachutes SoB. I read a book once, called [i]No Parachute.A fighter pilot in WW1[/i] RAF pilot and among other things, he lamented that balloon observers had parachutes but fighter pilots did not. an excerpt: [i]Rising to the rank of air vice-marshal, Gould Lee never forgot the RFC's needless sacrifices - and in a trio of trenchant appendices he examines, with the mature judgement of a senior officer of the RAF and a graduate of the Staff and Imperial Defence Colleges, [u][b]the failure of the Army High Command to provide both efficient aeroplanes until mid-1917 and parachutes throughout the war[/b][/u], and General Trenchard's persistence in a costly and largely ineffective conception of the air offensive.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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