9 August 1918: The Flight over Vienna—Gabriele D'Annunzio, the Italian Decadent poet, playwright, & journalist, who in the course of the war had trained as a fighter pilot & become associated with the Arditi commandos, conceived & led a flight of eleven Ansaldo SVA aeroplanes over a seven-hundred-plus mile round trip to drop thousands of propaganda leaflets on Vienna, capital of Austria-Hungary.
Lest we forget.
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