Wade Stevens, McCook aviation pioneer

Monday, March 21, 2011

During World War I there were a number of young men from Southwest Nebraska who volunteered to fight the Central Powers (Germany) in France. A number of these young men chose to join the Army Signal Corps, the branch of service that included the Flying Service. The aeroplane was still a very new invention -- only 12 years past the Wright Brothers first flight when the war began in 1914, yet this new technology had a profound effect on the youth of America (and the world), and young men wanted to fly.

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