At one time Pancho Villa got an American film company from Hollywood to make a war movie from one of his battles.  He even offered to attack at a time of day when the light was best for the cameras.  A movie, called, The Life of General Villa, was made but failed at the box office because the American audiences didn't think it was "realistic" enough.  Villa also hired American barnstorming pilots to fly over the enemy trenches and drop homemade bombs.  It's believed the first aerial combat i


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