Issue 1
Volume 1
The first issue of In the Trenches:
Today we will be covering the air war
The airplane was a new invention and was not seen by many high ranking officers as having an important role in wars, but most countries used them for finding enemy positions, then pilot started bring weapons like rifles with them, and soon machine guns were fitted to the fuselage! Some of the most famous fighter planes of WW1 were the Sopwith Camel, The Fokker Triplane, and the Spad. In WW1 the planes were not that maneuverable and could not go very high or the pilot would suffocate. Since the planes could not go very high the German airships or Zeppelins, which could go higher, were unopposed when they bombed London at the beginning of the war. A pilot became an ace in WW1 when they got 10 kills, one of the most famous aces was the "Red Baron" who had more that 80 kills, some say he was killed by ground crew and some say he was shot down. WW1 showed that planes were another way to fight a war, and the next time the world went to war it would be one of the most important things to fight with.
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