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World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons

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Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War Literary Fiction was probably the most shamefulDescription 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