Albatros Aces of World War I: Part 2 Poetry Captain George McMurtry

Captain George McMurtry

Pershing’s Crusaders offers a clear

The light horsemen and gunners also owed much to the intrepid airmen of the AFC and RFC whose tactical and offensive bombing and counter-battery work from mid-1917 would prove instrumental in securing victory

mud and futility

through sheer hard work

Albatros Aces of World War I: Part 2 Poetry Captain George McMurtryDescription by Greg VanWyngarden Paperback Nearly every German ace who flew before the summer of 1918 scored victories in Albatros fighters, whose introduction coincided with the development of the famous and highly successful Jagdstaffeln, the first true German fighter formations, which became a critical German air tactic and helped to wrest back air superiority from the Allies. After wreaking havoc in the skies over Arras the Albatros was eventually