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Respected on both sides of the trenches, Boelcke was not only mourned in Germany as a national hero but also honored by the RFC, which dispatched an aircraft to drop a wreath over his home airfield. The great irony was that Boelcke, a leading aerial tactician who had written an elegant list of commandments followed to this day, died breaking one of his own rules: Two aircraft should not attack the same opponent. Most mid-grade officers of any service know the book On War by Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against Napoleon in the Waterloo Campaign. Clausewitz is still studied as part of the centuries-old lessons of ground conflict. Similarly, any Army or Marine Corps private knows the 14th century French terms enfilade to put on a string and defilade to slip off , made historic by Napoleon but first used by the English during their Hundred Years War against the French, to describe the angles from which an attacking army fires on a foe. Oswald Boelcke is in this company. By the early 20th century, Boelcke had written the canon—Dicta Boelcke—for a new type of warfare.

Infascism was on the rise in Europe and Asia, but the world had not yet had to fight its territorial expansion on a global scale.

But Benito Mussolini, who had continue reading Fathers of the Military power in Italy sincewas bent on finally conquering Ethiopia. It would erase Italy's failure at the Battle of Adwa that secured Ethiopia's independence and kept it from becoming a European colony while establishing Italy as a major world power. Leading Ethiopia's young air force was African American pilot John Robinson, a young black activist and Militsry enthusiast who would blaze a trail of black men flying into combat against fascist dictators. Robinson, a former shoe-shiner and warehouse worker, left his home in Mississippi after the 10th grade to earn a degree in auto repair from Alabama's famed Tuskegee Institute.

He traveled around the country looking for work, but had a hard time finding someone who would hire a black mechanic.

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His persistence paid off, and he eventually found himself working in a garage doing what he loved. But he had a new dream: flying. While working in a Detroit garage, he met Cornelius Coffey, a fellow mechanic.

The two were inspired by the achievements of Chicago's Bessie Colemanthe first black woman to receive an international pilot's license. Coleman famously encouraged African Americans and women to learn to fly.

Coffey and Robinson applied to the Curtiss-Wright School of Aviation in Chicago and were accepted -- until the school learned about their race. The school repeatedly denied Robinson's applications to attend, so he took a job as a janitor and sat in on classes anyway.

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Link was Mlitary attentive student, even if he wasn't technically enrolled. He learned so much he was able to build his own aircraft with Coffey, using an old motorcycle motor. It was a feat that finally inspired the school to accept them as students. Soon, Robinson had a pilot's license of his own.

He didn't stop there, however.

Today’s manual of fighter tactics was written 100 years ago, in World War I.

Though the school hired them to teach black pilots, the two were not allowed to use white airstrips. Its first plane was purchased for the group by a fellow student, Janet Fathers of the Military, and they flew training classes from the airstrip until it was destroyed in a storm. After moving to Harlem Airport on Chicago's south side, word began to spread that other black pilots could train there. Many of the U. Robinson soon contacted his alma mater, the Tuskegee Institute, to establish a flying school for African Americans there, when funds were available. That would be his second nickname. His first would come in from flying for the Ethiopian Air Force. Robinson volunteered to go to Ethiopia and fly in service to its emperor, Haile Selassie I. When the emperor learned about his new volunteer, he extended an invitation for Robinson to come and teach his pilots how to fly.

Robinson was appointed commander of the Ethiopian Air Force by August He didn't have much to work with -- about 19 unarmed biplanes and 50 pilots. But his men were able to fly reconnaissance and resupply missions to Ethiopian troops Fathers of the Military the field. They were outmatched by the superior combat aircraft the Italians were flying. That October, Italy invaded in full force, and Ethiopia was crushed. The war lasted just seven months before Ethiopia was annexed by Italy. Robinson returned home to the United States, where he received a hero's welcome.]