Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War Literary Fiction and by the end of

and by the end of the war new military units such as the WAAC

Those conducting this terrorist offensive were members of the Women's Social and Political Union

their very minds

by Modris Eksteins

The year 1917 was unlike any other in American history

Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War Literary Fiction and by the end ofDescription by Paul R. Hare Hardcover Soon after entering the war in April 1917 American propaganda promised that she would `Darken the skies over Europe' by sending over `the Greatest Aerial Armada ever seen'. Encouraged by the French Government America promised to build no less than 22,000 aeroplanes within a year and to field, and to maintain, a force of 4,000 machines, all of the latest type, over the Western Front during 1918, not only to provide