Today in #Connecticut History, May 19: World War I Flying Ace Killed In the Skies Over France

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Today in 1894, Billy Bishop is born in Owen Sound, Ontario.
During WW1, the Germans called him Hell's Handmaiden as he shot down 72 of their planes, the most of any pilot in the British Empire.
During the war, he earned the Victoria Cross, Military Cross, DFO & DSO with Bar

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