Written by Dennis Norman.
Extended Digital Content from the March 2013 FF Scale Column.
Also featured in the March 2013 Model Aviation tablet app.
Sunday, April 21, 1918: The “war to end all wars” was in its fourth struggling, futile, year. In the darkness before dawn, a chilly North Sea mist crept across the muddy meadows of France. Now peaceful fields were then battlegrounds whose slimy faces were deeply pitted with shell holes and scarred with serpentine trenches in which shivering sentinels stood guard.
Just to the east of the trenches, near the Village of Douai,…