Carrying the War into the Air 



Captain 

 Georges Guy- 

 nemer, pic- 

 tured below, is 

 probably the 

 most skilful 

 air-fighter on 

 the French 

 side. Although 

 he joined the 

 aviation corps 

 a mere boy, he 

 has been rapid- 

 ly promoted. 

 He has a record 

 of thirty-seven 

 German ma- 

 chines to his 

 credit. In the 

 picture he is 

 holding the 

 battered, 

 twisted rem- 

 nant of a ma- 

 chine gun 

 taken from a 

 German battle 

 plane that he 

 brought down 



HOW TWO FIGHTERS 

 ATTACK A SINGLE ENEMY, 

 CUT OFF FROM HIS SQUADRON 



AT 20,000 FEET 

 SQUADRONS OF FIGHTERS 

 CIRCLE AROUND EACH OTHER 



V GERM/ 



at 10,000 FEET 



LARGER TWO SEATED SCOUT 

 MACHINES TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS 



Captain 

 Boelcke, pic- 

 tured below, 

 was by far the 

 best air fighter 

 that Germany 

 produced. He 

 was killed at 

 the Somme in 

 a collision with 

 a member of 

 his own air- 

 squadron. 

 Boelcke was 

 such an im- 

 portant per- 

 sonal factor 

 that, although 

 he had been 

 sent home to 

 rest by the 

 Emperor, he 

 was recalled 

 when the Ger- 

 mans found 

 that they were 

 losing in the 

 air alarmingly 

 at the Somme 



AT 6,000 FEET 

 IFIRE CONTROL MACHINES WtRELESS 

 ,T 8ACK THE HITS AND MISSES 



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The opposing squadrons watch and watch 

 each other. Woe betide the man in a squad- 

 ron who lags behind for a second, who man- 

 ipulates his control a little too carelessly, 

 who is not quite en rapport with his team- 

 mate in the machine beside him! Two 

 enemies swoop down upon him. He is cut 

 off from his fellows. He must fight for his 

 life. Up and down, in and out he maneuvers, 

 shooting when he can. But his enemies out- 

 number him. He has not a chance. There 

 is a squirting of bullets. His machine drops — 

 a sickening sight — three miles to earth 



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