This Memorial Day is possible, in part, because of the many little-known incidents during World War I. For instance, in October 1914, Dennis Cutler was flying his U.S. plane in search for the German ship, Konigsberg. The radiator of his aircraft failed, but he landed and replaced it with a Model T Ford radiator which enabled him to eventually spot the Konigsberg.
USA pilot, Howard Clayton Knotts, was shot down on the 14th of October 1918, and taken prisoner. When he was aboard a train transferring him to a prison camp, Knotts discovered that 7 Fokker aircraft were in a freight car in the same train. He set fire to the cars carrying the planes, thus destroying more German planes as a prisoner than as a pilot.
On average, 230 combatants died every single hour for the entire duration of World War I. Christmas Day, 1914, there was a spontaneous cessation of hostilities between British and German troops on the front lines. They met in no-man’s land, the area between the opposing front lines, where small gifts like chocolate or buttons were exchanged. It has become known as the “Christmas Truce.”
The number of German soldiers killed in battle during World War I was 2,000,000. The number of American soldiers killed in battle during World War I as 50,000. So, remember today all the men and women who gave their lives or served their countries in the first great war of the 20th Century.
This is Carl Ramsey and that’s Another View of the News.
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