Von Richthofen: The Legend Evaluated
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by Richard Townsend Bickers
This first overseas campaign by an air force might reasonably be likened to sending an army abroad with rifles, machineguns and shell-firing artillery less than eleven years after the invention of gunpowder; or a fleet of destroyers and cruisers to sea as short a time after the launching of the earliest sailing vessel.
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[1] Hostile Aircraft
[2] Le Prieur, electrically operated, five attached to the wing struts on either side.