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Sharks Among Minnows: The Fokker Eindecker Period, July 1915 to September 1916 by Norman Franks (Hardcover, 2001)
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Sharks among minnows : Germany's first fighter pilots and the Fokker Eindecker period, July 1915 to September 1916. The author has covered the period in detail, explaining how these early German fighter pilots achieved their kills, who they shot down and where, as well as covering their lives; for in the most cases their lives were short.
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No sooner had the war in the air become more serious, more deadly, in early 1925, than both Allied and German airmen were trying to find a successful way of fighting each other in order for each side to stop the other making reconnaissance and artilery observation sorties over the opposition's side of the lines. Various ingenious schemes, which had limited success, were suddenly over-shadowed by the arrival at the front in the summer of 1915 of the Fokker Eindekker, which had a synchronized machine gun firing through the whirling blades of the propeller. Spread amongst German two-seater reconnaissance units in ones and twos, those disposed to flying these first single-seater fighting aeroplanes, if they were successful, soon became famous and the first aces of this new form of aerial warfare. Names such as Boelcke, Immelmann, Wintgens, Parschau, Mulzer, Hohndorf, Frankl and von Althaus quickly became the first aces, the first heroes to the German public and the first winners of the coveted Pour le Merite - the famed Blue max. These and other pilots of the single-seat monoplane fighters caused havoc amongst British and French airmen over the Western Front for just over a year, something history called the Fokker Scourge . Although comparatively small in numbers, these early fighter pilots were deadly when attacking lightly armed, almost defenceless British and French aeroplanes. The author has covered the period in detail, explaining how these early German fighter pilots achieved their kills, who they shot down and where, as well as covering their lives; for in the most cases their lives were short. None of the early Fokker aces survived the war, bar one, and he died soon afterwards still serving his country. All were heroes and several of them died once they came up against sharks of equal standing from the Allied side.Product Identifiers
PublisherGrub Street Publishing
ISBN-139781902304922
eBay Product ID (ePID)86270599
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
Publication NameSharks Among Minnows: the Fokker Eindecker Period, July 1915 to September 1916
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGovernment, History
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
AuthorNorman Franks
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Weight461 g
Item Width156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorNorman Franks
