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Volume 53 in this series covered Fokker D VII aces from the four elite Jagdgeschwadern of the German army, and this follow-on volume charts the story of the many aces who flew the famed fighter in other units committed to combat in the final months of World War 1. D VII operations covered the entire Western Front, from the North Sea to the Swiss border. In the latter half of 1918 the Fokker was not only the mainstay of the army Jagdstaffeln, but also the most potent fighter flown by home defence Kests and the pilots of the German navy in Flanders. The D VII easily proved the equal of the many British, French, Belgian and American aircraft it met in combat, and served in such roles as day bomber interceptor, 'balloon buster' and nightfighter. Though handicapped by a lack of fuel and other supplies as the German war machine fell apart, aces such as Sachsenberg, Degelow and Rumey utilised the D VII to rack up impressive scores against consistently superior odds.
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Adam Pierce
reviewed Fokker D VII Aces of World War I (Part 2), Vol. 63 on August 25, 2019
Fokker D VII Aces of World War I
This book isn't really an operational history of air operations in World War One, nor does it offer biographical sketches of any of the major aces. It doesn't even mention aces like Rene Fonck or Werner Voss. Nor is there much technical information on the airplanes themselves; I don't recall seeing a single mention of the Fokker D.VII, or the SE-5A.
But it's still a good book. In a handful of chapters, it offers a kind of sociology of aviators, a theory about why the British were so much more offensive-minded in the air than anyone else, the growth of scattered squadrons into autonomous air arms, and it also discusses the weird disconnect between what people thought airpower could do, and what it actually did (namely, that artillery spotting and reconnaissance were airpower's main contributions, and that bombing and ground attack didn't really add up to much.
If you want to read about aces, dogfights, airplanes, campaigns, or kill statistics, this may not be for you. But if you're interested in the thinking and demographics of fighter pilots, and the formation of air arms in general, it's worth a read.
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