American Barnstormers in Mexico

During the Mexican Revolution American adventurers, especially barnstorming pilots were much in demand by both sides.  In 1911 during the early stages of the fighting an American named Hector Wordon was hired by the rebels to fly missions against the federales making him perhaps the first in history to fly a military mission. Those daring men in their flying machines also flew over the enemy trenches tossing homemade bombs. They scored very few hits and seemed to do little more than annoy th