Richthofen's Flying Circus (Pocket)
avVanWyngarden, Greg
ISBN: 9781841767260 - UTGIVEN: 2004-07-25Undoubtedly the most famous of any nation's aviation units in World War 1 was the legendary Jagdgeschwader Nr 1, or 'The Flying Circus' as its respectful foes labelled it. Germany's first true fighter wing, it would always be associated with its first commander, the charismatic and revered Manfred v[...]
Pfalz Scout Aces of World War 1 (Pocket)
avVanWyngarden, Greg
ISBN: 9781841769981 - UTGIVEN: 2006-07-10The Pfalz Flugzeug Werke, located at Speyer am Rhein in Bavaria, was the third in the great triumvirate (along with Fokker and Albatros) of German fighter manufacturers in the Great War. When World War I broke out in 1914, Pfalz initially produced copies of the Morane-Saulnier parasol monoplanes for[...]
Fokker D VII Aces of World War I (Häftad)
avNorman L. R. Franks, Greg VanWyngarden
ISBN: 9781841767291 - UTGIVEN: 2004-06Befitting its status as Germany's premier fighter unit, von Richthofen's JG I (led by Hermann Goring in the wake of the 'Red Baron's recent death) received the first examples of the D VII to reach the frontline in late April. Built to oppose the new generation of French SPAD XIIIs and British SE 5as[...]
Jagdstaffel 2 Boelcke (Pocket)
avGreg Vanwyngarden
ISBN: 9781846032035 - UTGIVEN: 2007-11By August 1916, the German Air Service was fighting a losing struggle in the skies over the Battle of the Somme. In response, an entirely new type of fighting formation came into being -the Jagdstaffel, a unit designed solely as a fighting squadron. One of the most famous was Jasta 2, formed and led[...]
