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Croix de guerre. Kiffin Yates Rockwell (September 20, 1892 – September 23, 1916) was an early aviator and the first American pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft in World War I. On May 18, 1916, Rockwell attacked and shot down a German plane over the Alsace battlefield. For this action he was awarded the Médaille militaire and the Croix de ...
- "Aristocrat of the Air"
- French Air Service
- Luxeuil-les-Bains Communal Cemetery, Luxeuil-les-Bains, France
Nov 6, 2017 · Kiffin Yates Rockwell wrote these words to his mother, Loula Ayres Rockwell, as he served as a fighter pilot in the renowned Lafayette Escadrille in World War I. Born in Newport, Tennessee, in 1892, Kiffin and his brother Paul enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in August 1914 – shortly after the war began on July 28, 1914.
Kiffin Yates Rockwell was born in 1892 in Newport, Tennessee, the son of James Chester Rockwell and Loula Ayres. James, a Baptist minister, died shortly after Kiffin's birth. After completing his preparatory schooling at the Orange Street School in Asheville, North Carolina, he enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute on February 1, 1909 at ...
Sep 27, 2016 · Always restless, Kiffin Rockwell left college in 1911 and traveled to San Francisco, where he ran an advertising agency. He returned to the South in January 1914, rejoining his brother, then ...
Kiffin Rockwell tests his Nieuport 11 near Verdun in 1916, the year he was killed. Learning of his death, Georges Thenault wept, calling him “the best and bravest of us all.”
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Sep 23, 2016 · Wednesday marks 104 years since the death of Kiffin Rockwell during the First World War. Rockwell's name may not be as recognizable as other heroes of the era, such as Sgt. Alvin York. But more ...
Mar 26, 2018 · Kiffin Rockwell, the Lafayette Escadrille and the Birth of the United States Air Force by T. B. Murphy. McFarland and Company, Inc. 2016, 200 pp. With Kiffin Rockwell, the Lafayette Escadrille and the Birth of the United States Air Force, T. B. Murphy—a fighter pilot himself—reminds readers of the US Air Force’s (USAF) long legacy dating back to the American pilots who flew in the French ...
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