Labels:text | human face | screenshot | newspaper | person | news OCR: Top Scoring Aces of World War I ers WarBirds - Knights.GED مممطعمظـ Kills Austro-Hu Short Stories of World War I Aces Help 35-40 Brumowsk Lof the 1 5th Albert Ball, Capta Albert Ball, Captain (Great Britain) 26-32 Arigi, Offiz (Great Britain) 27-30 Linke-Crav Albert Ball hated formation Belgium Oswald Boelcke, flying, preferring to fly alone Kills (Germany) in search of battle. His 37 Coppens, motto was "Attack 11 Meulemee René Fonck, Cap everything," and his favorite 10 Thieffry, 21 (France) tactic was to fly head on 7 Jacquet, Georges Guynen toward an enemy pilot until (France) the other flinched and pulled Kills France away, exposing himself to a 75 Fonck, Ca Max Immelmann, shot from Ball's guns. If Ball 54 Guynemer (Germany) was a fighter, he was also an innovator. He tinkered incessantly with his Nieuport 45 Nungesse Edward Mannoch and its armament, modifying its characteristics so that it 41 Madon, Ca (Great Britain) would fly "hands-off" and fixing a rear-view mirror to the Kills Germany James McCudde upper wing. The mirror allowed him to see whether an 80 Richthofer (Great Britain) enemy was closing from behind, and it was copied by other pilots on both sides. 62 Udet, Obe Manfred von Ric Using the rear-view mirror, Ball would allow an enemy to 53 Loewenha (Germany) approach from the rear, watching all the while but 48 Voss, Leu Edward Rickenb: pretending not to see. In the instant before the other pilot fired his guns, Ball would nose dive and come up 45 Rumey, L (United States) under the enemy's aircraft with guns blasting. 44 Berthold, Hauptrifarin Rudolph Ball once chased two German Albatroses all the way Kills Imperial Russia back to their base; after he ran out of ammunition, he
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