Here's an example of a observation balloon looks like:
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Observational Balloons- World War I: My great grandfather's story
World War I begun in the year of 1914 and the United States entered into the war in 1917 when one of the German submarines blow up an American-Britist ship called the Lusitania. During the World War, veterans use observational balloons that were employed as aerial platforms for intelligence gathering and artillery spotting. My great-grandfather Gerard C. Besse Sr. was a war veteran during World War I. When he was on a observation balloon, a plane shot it down. Gerard, my great-grandfather jumped off the balloon with a parachute. While going down on the parachute, he shot the plane that shot down his balloon.
Here's an example of a observation balloon looks like:
Here's an example of a observation balloon looks like:
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ReplyDeleteThis is a cool story Andrew. My great grandpa was also in WW1 but he didn't fly in a balloon. He was in the Canadian Army because he didn't weigh enough to be in the U.S. Army. I used to have a picture of him in his uniform but it was on my old cellphone and I don't have it anymore.
DeleteThis is very neat. Learning about the World Wars, this definitely makes it more meaningful (to me) to learn about peoples ancestors that were in the Wars.
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