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A
French airfield, painted
in
1916.
The fighter seen al
the right is
a
Nieuport
IZ.
iandards, the fighter planes of World
War
I
were
ing contraptions. An advanced typelike the French
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plan
unreliable,
and
80maimes wings
snapped
off
neuvers. There
were
no such thine
as
selfdealing
bullet could turn
a
plane into
a
flaming
torch in'
the last weeks of the war there were no parachutes.
The story of some of these aces, their fighting
planes they flew is told on the following pages.
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counts of their combats, you will
find
them in
those met by the players of
Dogfight.
Whether you
bore in for the kill, the choices you face are the
faced great aces
like
Richthofen and Bishop and
that first air war more than forty years am.
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else but observing enemy
troop
movements and directi-,
fire. If they were to become offensive weapons,
a
waf
found
to
mount
a
machine gun
so
that
by
aiming his pl
:
also aimed the gun. The trouble
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mat-..
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kept
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ripping burst after burst of rnachiae-gun
bulk~
from the rear.
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remember seeingt1le'windsleicM
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fly
away in small pieces, and'ihen
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Edward Mannock, with semy&ee
V~MCS,
WS.S
tfrci-
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ranking British ace. Like RicW~,
he
h&
~IIZ
Elk
instin&
'>
nnock hated all Germam,
and
&i*
WPS
sanething
he
dvez
ulged in. "When you shd'
hc
told
a
am
pilot, 'doa!t
a&&
plane-aim for the piloha
lalz
sewera1 omasions
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is British fighter had a ve&le armament, wit
and marksmanship. He pitched into a forma
st.
To
cap off his
d
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aces
like
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guns
blazing
unta
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his op-
went down. Teamed up
-
with
Lt.
Joseph Wehner, he de-
molished balloons at a phenome-
-
nal rate. One evening he promised
'
he would destroy three particular
balloons within twenty minutes.
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Before an amazed group of high-
,
ranking officers he
did
just
that-
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$although iie complained that
it
,&?d taken hiin twenty-six minutes.
6.2'
~n.,$gitpmb-er 18, 1918, Luke
p
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,cLpulle$3h~ ,all the stopsb ~&h
2'Wehner .@yifig cover; he. plunged'
through vicious grgund fire to de-
stroy
two
balloons with incendi-
ary bu~lets,As
h$
zoomed upward
A
he
raw
wehner
trying
to
hold
off
seven Fokker D-7s. He barreled into the
F~kker apart in a head-on attack, and
kn6ck down a second one. But: ~eh
id
to his field, Luke spotted a two-$
French Spads. He horned in and shoi
bag of two balloons and three planes in ten minutes.
When Ae learnedY&<wehner had
been
killed, Luke
was
plunged
into brooding grief.
A
furlough failed'to shake his black mood, and
two unauthorized flights brought. the order to ground him until
further notice. Luke heard the order, dashed out to his plane, and
took off again. His cammanding officer was furious. "l'm recom-
mending him for the Distinguished Service Cross," he snappd,
"and then, by God, I'm going to court-martial him!"
Frank Luke got neither, for he was on his last patrol. He daol-
ished two fighten and burned' three balloons, was wounded,
and
crash-landed
his
Spad behind the German lines; he died in a church
graveyard, blazing away at German soldiers with a
.45
ahtomatic.
American flyers served their apprenticeship with
or British squadrons. Lt. David Putnam, for instance,
okker D-7s. His
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