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By Victor Kulikov
Even though the Russian Imperial military Air provider consisted of not more than 4 luggage (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa – conflict aviation groups), each one controlling 3 or 4 smaller AOIs (Aviatsionniy Otryad Istrebitelei – fighter aviation detachments) outfitted with various airplane kinds, its fighter pilots however gave an outstanding account of themselves. certainly, in the course of 3 years of conflict they claimed greater than 2 hundred Austro-Hungarian and German airplane shot down, growing thirteen aces – those elite aviators accounted for round 1/2 the victories claimed at the japanese entrance. Pilots flew numerous fighter varieties, with French Nieuport scouts and SPAD VIIs proving to be the preferred, and powerful, aeroplanes to work out provider in this entrance. The exploits of those aces are special the following, with info in keeping with fabric newly sourced via the writer from Russian army and personal data. Many formerly unpublished pictures are used to demonstrate this ebook, supported by way of full-colour profiles that display how extraordinary a few of the aces' opponents have been during this often-forgotten theatre of worldwide warfare I.
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During four patrols mounted in early September Smirnov either did not meet enemy aircraft or they retreated when he approached. Finally, on the 11th, while flying SPAD VII S1546 (which he would An unnamed German pilot from Flieger Abteilung 24 stands alongside Smirnov in front of the latter’s Nieuport 17 N2522 at Dunaevtsy airfield on the Southwest Front. The Russian ace had actually used his SPAD VII S1546 to down his opponent’s Albatros C X on 11 September 1917 . . . which is seen here being examined by Russian troops after it was force-landed near Balin.
The leading aeroplane then turned towards Kokorin, who was above his opponent. The Russian descended steeply to meet the Albatros C III head on, at which point the enemy pilot made a 90-degree turn and began to descend. His observer fired at the Morane, but this did not prevent Kokorin from attacking his opponent several times and forcing the aircraft to land three kilometres (two miles) to the west of Uvse village. Nikolai Kokorin shot down five enemy two-seat reconnaissance aircraft between 12 November 1916 and 12 May 1917 Kokorin is seen here standing with his hands in his pockets alongside a German Albatros C III that he had shot down near Kozova on 1 April 1917.
On 14 October the 1st BAG was transferred from Kovalyuvka to Dunaevtsy – Smirnov flew there the next day. On 17 October he ‘attacked an enemy aeroplane in the region southeast of Grzhimalov at 1600 hrs and pursued it to the trenches, having descended with it to a height of 600 m [2000 ft]. com ACES OF THE 1st BAG In the region of Skala at about 1700 hrs I attacked two enemy fighters and conducted an inconclusive 20-minute fight over enemy territory’. On 28 October Praporshchik Smirnov, flying his SPAD VII, and Mladshy Unter-Officer Lipsky in a Nieuport 23 took off on a patrol.