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In the summer of 1917, more than two hundred American men volunteered for service in England's Royal Flying Corps, where they would be trained to fly with the Allies until American squadrons could be organized.
John MacGavock Grider, assigned to Royal Air Force Number 85 Squadron,
flying SE-5a pursuit planes, was shot down and killed some twenty miles behind German lines in the summer of 1918. He was not a hero, nor were his training and combat experiences much different from those of his fellow pilots. He is set apart only by the records he kept of his experiences during that year....

The De Soto expedition forms an integral part of the great age of discovery and conquest in the Americas triggered by the Columbian voyages. In the wake of Columbus there came other explorers and conquistadors who pushed through the islands of the Caribbean and into the American mainlands in the first half of the 16th century. They came as explorers and discoverers, conquerors and settlers, spreading the best and worst of European civilisation through the Americas. The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United...