1. War in the Air At the start of the war, there was some debate over the usefulness of aircraft in warfare. Many senior officers, in particular, remained skeptical. In the initial campaigns of 1914 it was discovered that cavalry could no longer provide the reconnaissance expected by their generals, Aircraft adopted for reconnaissance, but eventually get involved in various forms of combat

2. Dangerous In April 1917, the worst month for the entire war for the RFC, the average life expectancy of a British pilot on the Western Front was 93 flying hours. Dogfights- were the result of enemy aircraft encounters in the sky. - the goal was to tailgate enemy planes and shoot them down

3. Parachutes were not allowed (they should try and save the planes and not bail out. Planes were soon called “Flying Coffins” Machine guns added later (Germans better tech…)

4. WWI war in the air Historically, an ace or flying ace was defined as a pilot credited with shooting down five or more enemy planes during aerial combat. German Red baron Manfred von Richthofen Shot down 80 planes

5. Canada in the skies 20 000 Canadians served with the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air service OF top 21 British pilots, 10 were Canadian Top 10 aces in the war (both sides) 4 were Canadian

6. Billy Bishop Lieutenant Colonel Billy Bishop Top ranked Ace for Canada, ranked 3 in the world, shot down 72 planes.

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8. Enemy Aliens! In August 1914, the government of Canada issued an Order in Council under the War Measures Act. It required the registration and in certain cases the internment of aliens of "enemy nationality". This included the more than 80,000 Canadians who were formerly citizens of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. These individuals had to register as "enemy aliens" and report to local authorities on a regular basis.

9. Twenty-four "concentration camps" (later called "internment camps") were established across Canada, The camps were supposed to house enemy alien immigrants who had contravened regulations or who were deemed to be security threats.

10. Other reasons given for internment included "acting in a very suspicious manner" and being "undesirable". By the middle of 1915, 4000 of the internees had been imprisoned for being "indigent" (poor and unemployed). A total of 8,579 Canadians were interned between 1914 and 1920. Over 5,000 of them were of Ukrainian descent. Germans, Poles, Italians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Turks, Serbians, Hungarians, Russians, Jews, and Romanians were also imprisoned. Of the 8,579 internees, only 2,321 could be classed as "prisoners of war" (i.e. "captured in arms or belonging to enemy reserves"); the rest were civilians.

11. Upon each individual's arrest, whatever money and property they had was taken by the government. In the internment camps they were denied access to newspapers and their letters were censored. One hundred and seven internees died, including several shot while trying to escape. They were forced to work on maintaining the camps, road-building, railway construction, and mining. As the need for soldiers overseas led to a shortage of workers in Canada, many of these internees were released on parole to work for private companies.

12. The first World War ended in 1918, but the forced labour program and the internment were continued for two years after the end of the War.