THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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Photograph by International Film Service 



A TYPE OF NIGHT-FLYING AIRPLANE NOW IN USE 



Note the four rockets on each side and the machine-gun protruding over the bow of the 

 boat-shaped fuselage. The radiators for the motor are on each side of the fuselage. Below 

 the lower plane of the machine is a battery of three searchlights controlled, of course, by 

 wired levers within reach of the pilot. A touch of humor is supplied in the manikin figure- 

 head at the bow. 



Forty-eight German aces, dead or re- 

 tired, have brought down 923 aeroplanes. 



(Date when activities ceased is indicated in paren- 

 theses.) 



Capt. von Richthofen (killed April 21, 1918).... 80 



Lieut. Werner- Voss-Crefeld (killed Oct. 8, 1917). 49 



Capt. Boelke 40 



Lieut. Gontermann (November 3, 1917). 39 



Lieut. Max Muller (January 15, 1918) 38 



Lieut. Bongartz (wounded March 3, 1918) 36 



Lieut. Cort Wolf 33 



Lieut. Schaeffer 30 



Lieut. Almenroeder 30 



Lieut, von Richthofen, wounded 29 



Capt. von Tutscheck (March 17, 1918) 27 



Lieut. Barnet (October 13, 1917) 27 



Lieut. Dosler (January 1, 1918) 26 



Lieut. Erwin Boehm (December 1, 1917) 24 



Lieut, von Tschwibon (November 22, 1917) 20 



Lieut, von Eschwege 20 



Lieut. Bethge (March 17, 191 8) 20 



Capt. Behr 19 



Lieut. Thulzer 19 



Lieut. Baldamus 18 



Lieut. Wintgens 18 



Lieut. Frankel 17 



Lieut. Geigel (May 13, 1918) 15 



Lieut. Schneider 15 



Lieut. Immelmann 15 



Lieut. Nathanall 14 



Lieut. Dassenbach 14 



Lieut Festner 12 



Lieut. Pfeiffer 12 



Lieut. Manschatt 12 



Lieut. Hohndorf (October 13, 1917) ". . 12 



Lieut. Mutschaat 12 



Lieut. Buddecke 12 



Lieut, von Kendall 11 



Lieut. Kirmaier 11 



Lieut. Theiller 11 



Lieut. Herman Serf ert 11 



Lieut. Mulzer 10 



Lieut. Leffers q 



Lieut. Schulte 9 



Lieut. Parschau 8 



Lieut. Schilling 8 



Lieut. Immelmann 6 



Lieut. Fahlbusch 5 



Lieut, von Siedlitz 5 



Lieut. Rosenkranz 5 



Lieut. Habor 5 



Lieut. Reimann 5 



Thus, 88 German aces have shot down 

 1,670 aeroplanes of the Allies. On July 

 26, 1917, Germany claimed a total of 

 2,387 enemy aircraft destroyed since the 

 beginning of the war. Since that time 

 more than 1,000 have been added to this 

 list. 



TURKISH ACE 

 Capt. Schetz 8 successes 



ALLIES' LIVING ACES, 1 57; HUNS, 40 



Summarizing the foregoing table of 

 the aces and their victories, we find that 

 88 Germans have brought down 1,670 

 hostile aircraft since the beginning of the 

 war, while 193 Allied aces have consid- 

 erably exceeded this score, with 2,041 

 enemy aircraft shot down. The startling 

 feature in this comparison is the dis- 



