Description Five days after the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, American Kiffin Rockwell was on a ship headed for France.
A combat wound in 1915 rendered him unfit to fight on the ground, so Rockwell volunteered to fight in the air, becoming a charter member.
He joined the elite French Foreign Legion and was soon fighting in the trenches of the Western Front.
The United States would not join the war for nearly three years, but Rockwell believed it was time to fight.
Description Five days after the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, American Kiffin Rockwell was on a ship headed for France