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Ace in a Day: Henry Woollett

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Among the many aces of World War I, there were a few who stood above for one reason or another, and one of them was a British officer, twenty-two years old, who in a single day managed not just 5 victories, enough to be an “ace in a day”, but six, a feat accomplished and confirmed by only a handful of pilots in the whole war.

Video includes scenes from the 1927 Film “Wings,” available on internet archive here: https://archive.org/details/w...