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A hundred years ago this month the "war to end all wars" began as Germany violated Belgium neutrality and attacked France. In 1917 the US entered the war and added the manpower advantage that enabled allied victory on the Western Front. This fictional render honors all the women and men who served and sacrificed in that "Great War" to defend liberty in Europe.

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The First Women's Air Squadron, l'escadrille aéronautique de premières femmes, was a top secret organization of American women fliers. The unit recruited every American woman who knew how to fly for service in France. Originally conceived as a unit to ferry planes behind the lines, the organization was committed to combat on the Western Front in 1918. The desperate shortage of trained pilots at that critical point in the war convinced General Pershing and President Wilson that this unprecedented policy was absolutely necessary. The First Women's Air Squadron flew a thousand combat sorties and destroyed over one hundred enemy aircraft. It produced three aces, while a dozen women pilots lost their lives in combat. After the war the unit was disbanded and all records of it were destroyed because the President determined that the American people were not ready for the idea of women flying in combat.

Many years later the great grand-daughter of one of those early women pilots, Captain Donna Domenitzo, call sign "Valkyrie," USAF fighter pilot, carries the tradition of women aviators into the twenty-first century.

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Daz3d->Reality->Lux render with a v4 model and the daz3d biplane model. Aircraft was textured in photoshop. Photoshop was also used for minor postwork and the sky background.

Description

A hundred years ago this month the "war to end all wars" began as Germany violated Belgium neutrality and attacked France. In 1917 the US entered the war and added the manpower advantage that enabled allied victory on the Western Front. This fictional render honors all the women and men who served and sacrificed in that "Great War" to defend liberty in Europe.

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The First Women's Air Squadron, l'escadrille aéronautique de premières femmes, was a top secret organization of American women fliers. The unit recruited every American woman who knew how to fly for service in France. Originally conceived as a unit to ferry planes behind the lines, the organization was committed to combat on the Western Front in 1918. The desperate shortage of trained pilots at that critical point in the war convinced General Pershing and President Wilson that this unprecedented policy was absolutely necessary. The First Women's Air Squadron flew a thousand combat sorties and destroyed over one hundred enemy aircraft. It produced three aces, while a dozen women pilots lost their lives in combat. After the war the unit was disbanded and all records of it were destroyed because the President determined that the American people were not ready for the idea of women flying in combat.

Many years later the great grand-daughter of one of those early women pilots, Captain Donna Domenitzo, call sign "Valkyrie," USAF fighter pilot, carries the tradition of women aviators into the twenty-first century.

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Daz3d->Reality->Lux render with a v4 model and the daz3d biplane model. Aircraft was textured in photoshop. Photoshop was also used for minor postwork and the sky background.