PDW Tout Le Sang Qui Coule Rouge Morale Patch

"Tout Le Sang Qui Coule Rouge". Translates as "All Blood Runs Red" and along with the bleeding heart graphic, was painted on the fuselage of the Spad S.VII piloted by Eugene Bullard during WWI. This morale patch is in honor of this man's remarkable life, whose exploits read like fiction, except it was not. Born in Georgia in 1895, Eugene lit off to Europe as a young teen stowing away on a German freighter. Making his way to England he was, among other things, part of a vaudeville act and a prize fighter. Settling in France, Eugene fought in WWI with the French Foreign Legion as a machine gunner and then fighter pilot withe French Air Service. After the war Euegen became a jazz drummer and operated a jazz night club in Paris. During this time he counted the likes of Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, and Langston Hughes as his friends and associates. Ernest Hemingway even made a character for Bullard in his book, The Sun Also Rises. In the period leading up to WWII, Eugene was enlist