""Yippee! We're going back to World War One!" said nobody ever -- except maybe the Hangman. When the Great War began in 1914, America had plans to stay out of it. But some young men were so eager to fight, they joined the French Foreign Legion. From deep in the mud and blood of the Western Front, these young volunteers looked to the sky and saw the future -- the airplane. The first American pilots to fight in World War One flew for the French military....

In graphic novel format, explores "how the Red Baron--German flying ace Manfred Von Richthofen--racked up his number of downed aircraft to 33; how Eugene Jacques Bullard, born in the United States, became the first black fighter pilot in the war--for France; [and] how Canadian flying ace Billy Bishop took on six enemy aircraft single-handed--and won"--Page 4 of cover.