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Kiffin Yates Rockwell (September 20, 1892 – September 23, 1916) was an early aviator and the first American pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft in World War I. On May 18, 1916, Rockwell attacked and shot down a German plane over the Alsace battlefield.
27 de sept. de 2016 · World War I aviator Kiffin Yates Rockwell may well be a bigger hero in France than here at home, but historian Marc McClure aims to change that.
6 de nov. de 2017 · Flying a new, improved Nieuport 17 aircraft on patrol over Verdun on September 23, 1916, Rockwell encountered a 2-man Aviatik, and dived toward the enemy plane from 10,000 feet, so close that an eyewitness thought there would be a collision. The German gunner shot Rockwell in the chest, killing him instantly.
Kiffin Yates Rockwell, American aviator in World War I and pioneer in aerial combat, was a charter member of the Lafayette Escadrille, an American volunteer squadron formed on 20 Apr. 1916, approximately one year before the United States entered the European conflict.
Because of a boy bred in Asheville, the seed of the U.S. Air Force was planted. Kiffin Yates Rockwell was about 13 when his widowed mom, Dr. Loula Ayres Rockwell, moved with her three children...
Kiffin Yates Rockwell's final combat took place on September 23, 1916, when he was killed by the gunner in a German Albatross observation plane. Rockwell was buried with high honors in the cemetery at Luxeuil-les-Bains, France.
Kiffin Yates Rockwell was born in Newport, Tennessee, on September 20, 1892. He was the son of James Chester Rockwell, a Baptist minister, and Loula Ayers Rockwell. His name reflected his father’s knowledge of religious history. “Kiffin” came from William Kiffin, an English missionary in the 1400s.
