The Last of the Great Aces

Voices of the First World War by BBC

Apr 3, 201812:56Society & Culture

Dan Snow looks at the war in the air in the first months of 1918, when a pilot's expertise began to matter less than an aircraft's bombing capabilities. Airmen recall that most of the great flying aces had been lost by t...

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