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Type of bind: Paperback
Brand: Osprey Publishing
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.44943
EAN num: 9781841769974
ISBN number: 1841769975
Label: Osprey Publishing
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
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Page Count: 96
Printing Date: October 31, 2006
Publishing house: Osprey Publishing
Release Date: October 31, 2006
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The Fokker Eindecker (monoplane) can truly be said to have begun the age of fighter aviation. With the development of its revolutionary synchronised system that enabled the machine gun to fire through the propellor, Fokker E I pilots caused consternation in the Allied air services as they began to reap a harvest of victims in the summer of 1915. While the very first victory with a Fokker E-type is now believed to have been earned by Kurt Wintgens on 1 July 1915, it was the exploits of Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke that made the machine legendary. These men, along with others such as Parschau and Hohndorf, received the adulation of the German public along with such honors as the very first awards of the coveted Blue Max. They created the tactics and principles of German fighter aviation as they did so, developing doctrine that is still relevant to today's fighter pilots.
However, by the end of 1916, the glory days of the lone hunter and his Fokker Eindecker were over. They were replaced by a succeeding generation of biplane fighters which would be flown in new formations - the Jagdstaffeln or 'hunting groups'. The story of these very first Fokker and Halberstadt biplane fighters and their pilots concludes this volume.
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This book is also thin, expensive, and full of technical data and history of pilots with colour drawings of wing marking and such.
I like the books, but all the books by this author I bought and thought they were too thin, and cost too much. I would not buy them again. If I could have handled them before purchase I might not have bought them.
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This little book is a valuable resource for those wishing to know something of the early German aces of the "Fokker Scourge" period. Informative text, good photographs.
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The author's expertise on WWI German aviation comes through clearly in this excellent and much needed addition to the Osprey aces series. Here is the story of how fighter aviation started, and is told via excellent text (much by the aces themselves), well-chosen photographs, and excellent colour profiles of the planes. This book is a must for enthusiasts, historians, and modelers interested in WWI aviation.
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If the German Air Service didn't invent air combat, they certainly contributed much to its initial development. Once German fighters were equipped with a forward-firing machine gun in 1915 - courtesy of Tony Fokker's Eindecker monoplane - intrepid pilots like Oswald Boelcke, Max Immelmann, Hans-Joachim Buddecke, Wilhelm Frankl and Gustav Leffers set about sweeping the skies of Allied aircraft and, in doing so, created many of the tactics and formations subsequently utilized by all fighter pilots. Greg VanWyngarden summarizes the exploits of these early Fokker pilots in this Osprey "Aircraft of the Aces" volume, #73.
VanWyngarden does a good job of relating the creation of the machine-gun armed fighter and the resulting 'Fokker scourge.' Along with relating numerous air combats, he also supplies a human face to the long-ago 'Hun' pilots - the brilliant fighter ace/tactician Boelcke, the rather foppish Max Immelmann, the grimly determined Rudolf Berthold, the playboy Ernst Freiherr von Althaus and so on. These were the days of the lone hunter and Germany's pilots were as fascinating as they were deadly.
The book features over 100 photographs, some quite rare, and 10 pages of colour profiles by Harry Dempsey.
This is a marvelous chronicle of the early days of air combat. It's amazing when looking at the photographs of the Eindecker monoplanes to think that those rather flimsy aircraft were the F-15 of their day!
Recommended for all air war afficiandos.
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A very first class basic reference book and well worth the price. I intend to add more in the series to my collection
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