HSTR 344A Lecture 7: HSTR 344A Lecture 7
10 Mar 2017
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Vorbeck continues fighting until nov 1918 (last german army to surrender) Oswald boelke dies 28 oct 1916 40 kills: e. g. Max immelmann dies 18 june 1916 17 kills. Invents immelmann kills: early aces create air fighting tactics, but just about all of them die, given heroes funerals, air fighting is far deadlier than trench warfare, entente figures out interrupter mechanisms and build better fighters, e. g. French spad vii far outclasses the fokker: fokker was a monoplane, wings fell off when trying to do a tight, aircraft design race turn to catch spad biplane, e. g. Albatros d, se-5, sopwith camel, spad xiii: e. g. Baron von richtoffen had 80 kills: mostly shot down recon aircraft, flew fokker tri-plane for the last part of his career, flew in large groups ( circuses , killed 21 april 1918, e. g. Billy biship got 72 kills and survived: e. g.
