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Informal Lectures and Discussions

Here you will find some of the topics that will be covered by your guide during your tour. 

Spads in flight

World War 1   1914 - 1918

  • 1914 The world on the brink of war

  • Balloons, blimps and dirigibles

  • Aircraft and Airman

  • The Lafayette Escadrille

  • Leadership, strategies and tactics of aerial warfare

  • Future WWII leaders in WWI

DH-88 Comet

The Interwar Years

  • Reparations and the Versailles Treaty

  • The Golden Age of Aviation

  • Unfinished business and the rise of the Nazi Party

  • The National Socialist Flyers Corps and the rise of the Luftwaffe

  • The U.S. Air Corps Tactical School and the rise of the Bomber Mafia

Consolidated B-24

World War II   1939-1945

  • 1939 - Blitzkrieg

  • The Battle of Britain

  • Retreat from Dunkerque

  • Lend-lease, Russian air power and the Night Witches

  • Aircraft and Airmen

  • RAF Bomber Command vs. the Mighty 8th Air Force

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