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The Armenian Air Force of 1918: Pilots, Planes, and a Desperate Fight
When the First Republic of Armenia was born in 1918, it had almost nothing: no army, no money, and barely a government. But within months, Armenian pilots were flying French and Russian planes over Yerevan, bombing Turkish columns and dropping leaflets. This episode tells the little-known story of the Armenian Air Force — a handful of daredevils, a few battered Nieuports and Farmans, and the desperate aerial battles that helped buy the Republic time. We meet the first Armenian pilot, Stepan Melkonian, who died in a crash in 1918; the Russian émigré pilots who joined the cause; and the…
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