Article by Sam Moffitt
I have a personal connection to World War One combat aviation, a personal and family connection. My Uncle Millard Brooks, my maternal Grand Father’s (Eli Brook’s) brother and my mother’s uncle, volunteered for the American Expeditionary Force (Aef) when America finally got off the fence and committed troops to what was then called The Great War or the War to End all Wars
Uncle Millard had worked in Grandpa Brook’s blacksmith shop, at the crucial time when blacksmithing (shoeing horses and other work with iron) was giving way to mechanical work (repairing the engines in Model T Fords and other early automobiles).
I’ll give you the short version of Uncle Millard’s story Millard Brooks was such a good mechanic he was sent to a special school in Scotland to learn how to time the engines on the bi planes when...
I have a personal connection to World War One combat aviation, a personal and family connection. My Uncle Millard Brooks, my maternal Grand Father’s (Eli Brook’s) brother and my mother’s uncle, volunteered for the American Expeditionary Force (Aef) when America finally got off the fence and committed troops to what was then called The Great War or the War to End all Wars
Uncle Millard had worked in Grandpa Brook’s blacksmith shop, at the crucial time when blacksmithing (shoeing horses and other work with iron) was giving way to mechanical work (repairing the engines in Model T Fords and other early automobiles).
I’ll give you the short version of Uncle Millard’s story Millard Brooks was such a good mechanic he was sent to a special school in Scotland to learn how to time the engines on the bi planes when...
- 5/5/2020
- by Sam Moffitt
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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