A Letter
from a German Pilot

"I felt like a king, loaded with my bombs... I flew over Saint Privat quite low, so that I could see all the houses, and if I dropped my bombs there, I should have been able to to destroy half the village..."

The cocksure words from a German aviator are quoted above as they appeared in a 1916 issue of the Vienna newspaper ARBEITER ZEITUNG. The pilot was recalling his flight over a French Village in the Verdun sector, much of it reduced to rubble.