Wireless War on the Western Front

Radio and the deadlock of 1914

According to historian Holger Herwig, airplanes like the one above were solely responsible for the French victory on the Marne in 1914, halting the German juggernaut short of Paris. My skepticism is based on the planes themselves. Early aircraft like that one picture above had less horsepower than your average lawn mower, and about the same size of gas …