Some Gave All: Henri Guillaumet, Pilot from Ligne

Some Gave All: Henri Guillaumet, Pilot from Ligne:

Henri Guillaumet, Pilot from Ligne

A memorial in Ligne, France, to Henri Guillaumet, a pilot who lost his life in World War Two.

The memorial was placed on the 50th anniversary of his death.



MKTH photograph.

The Aerodrome. Now Reformatted.

As the old format here was frankly a flop.

This works better, and looks better.

Lex Anteinternet: Wyoming's legislature considers a bill to address air ambulance costs.

Lex Anteinternet: Wyoming's legislature considers a bill to address ...:

Wyoming's legislature considers a bill to address air ambulance costs.

Basically the bill would expand medicaid coverage in that area.



The cost of air ambulance service, which when you need it, you need it, has been in the news a lot here recently.  It's a fantastic service, particularly in a state like this, but affording it has become really problematic for anyone who doesn't have insurance that covers most of it, and that is seemingly a lot of people.  So we're finding, at least in this one area, Medicaid Expansion might be in the works in a legislative body that's otherwise opposed it.

Commercial flights from Cody Wyoming to Chicago Illinois to resume this summer.

They've done it before, but United is bringing the once a week flight back, courtesy of the state sponsored Air Service Enhancement Program.

And four trips per week to Denver are also being included, up from the present three.

Lex Anteinternet: January 11, 1919. Casper Gets Gas (no. . . really...

Lex Anteinternet: January 11, 1919. Casper Gets Gas (no. . . really...:

January 11, 1919. Casper Gets Gas (no. . . really). Women ponder keeping their jobs.

Elsewhere airmen who would later climb to higher heights of fame were now on occupation duty in Germany, including the legendary Billy Mitchell, and Lewis H. Brereton who would have air and ground commands during World War Two.

A group of serious looking American airmen; Brigadier General William Mitchell, chief of Air Service, his staff. From left to right: French Capt. R. Vallois, Ltc. Lewis Hyde Brereton (1890-1967, who rose to senior command in World War Two), Brigadier General William Mitchell, Maj. Ira Beaman Joralemon (1884-1975, who became a mining engineer), Capt. O. E. Marrel, First Lieutenant E. F, Schwab.  Dierdorf, Germany, January 11, 1919.

Lex Anteinternet: January 12, 1919. Laying down the law and up, up ...

Lex Anteinternet: January 12, 1919. Laying down the law and up, up ...:

January 12, 1919. Laying down the law and up, up and away.

U.S. Navy C Class blimp before taking off from Rockaway Naval Air Station in New York for Florida.

The blimp's crew.

Lex Anteinternet: Kelly Field, Texas. January 5, 1919.

Lex Anteinternet: Kelly Field, Texas. January 5, 1919.:

Kelly Field, Texas. January 5, 1919.

Kelly Field, Texas.  January 5, 1919.

Trans Continental

MKTH photographs.

Lex Anteinternet: As we pass 700,000 views, the State of the Blog(s)...

Lex Anteinternet: As we pass 700,000 views, the State of the Blog(s)...: Lex Anteinternet Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter. ...

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: These things I'd do differently,...

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: These things I'd do differently,...:

Lex Anteinternet: These things I'd do differently, maybe. (Or maybe ...

Lex Anteinternet: These things I'd do differently, maybe. (Or maybe ...:

These things I'd do differently, maybe. (Or maybe I really wouldn't).

Oh yeah.



I'd learn to fly.

Some Gave All: Musee de la Grande Guerre, Meaux France

Some Gave All: Musee de la Grande Guerre, Meaux France:

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Musee de la Grande Guerre, Meaux France

These are scenes from Meaux's Musee de la Grande Guerre, a museum dedicated to the topic of World War One.  The displays here are really impressive.

All photos are MKTH photographs.

This museum  has a fine display of weapons, including artillery.

An example of French uniforms early in the war.  Note the red trousers and the dark blue jacket.

An example of the type of uniforms the Germans wore prior to World War One. The coat is a "Prussian Blue" service coat with red flashing.  The helmet is the classic German "Pickelhaube" that survived into the early years of the war.

A panting commemorating the alliance between republican France and Imperial Russia.

Imperial Russian flag in Russian and French, for those units that served on the Western Front.

Example of early semi automatic pistols.

Display of British uniform.

British uniforms.

German uniforms.

French helmet, top, outfitted with net.  German M16 helmet below, with painted camouflage.

Ship camouflage.

French armor, and primitive trench club.

German armor.

Early helmets.

Trench hand to hand weapons, including entrenching tools.

Light machine guns, Lewis top, Chauchat bottom.

Small arms of the Great War.

French cavalryman's armor. Early in the war, things remained very 19th Century for awhile.

Horizontal stabilizer of a French airplane.

Signalling flag.

Early airborne ordinance.

French winter uniform.

French uniforms.

Russian uniform.

British uniform.

French uniform on left, German on right.

German helmet pierced by a projectile.

French helmet likewise pierced.

Travelling Communion set.

British desert uniform.

German uniform for African troops in Africa.

Gurkha kukri.

U.S. handguns.

Display of American weapons.

Trench mortar.