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Published by Helion & Company 2011

Designed and typeset by Farr out Publications, Wokingham, Berkshire
Cover designed by Farr out Publications, Wokingham, Berkshire
Printed by Gutenberg Press Limited, Tarxien, Malta

Text and diagrams © Leon Bennett 2011
Photographs © as individually credited.
Front cover: Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen standing in front of an iconic Fokker Dr.I
Triplane (Ullstein Bilderdienst).
Rear cover: Boelcke’s Swarm – a loose group of roughly half a dozen Albatros fighters was typical of Hauptmann Oswald Boelcke’s 1916 approach (Flugsport, June 1917, p.373).

ISBN 978 1 906033 92 7
ISBN 978 1 908916 43 3 (eBook)

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