In November of 1917 at 5,550 feet, a British patrol of SE 5 and DH 5 fighters engage a German flight that includes a DFW C.V, an LVG C.V and their escort of Albatros D.V aircraft.
German and British batteries are dueling with gas shells and a flight of Bristols is tasked with taking out the Hun guns, but German fighters interfere as they begin the attack.
It’s Christmas Day 1917 and the modest celebration at headquarters is interrupted by some noisy, uninvited guests – and they’re not bringing presents, they’re dropping bombs!
A well-protected pair of Belgian two-seaters are tasked with a dual photo mission, but the intercepting Albatri and Pfalz’s are going to make it a challenge.
As the Germans and Americans upgrade their fighters in early August of 1918, Nieuports and SPADs engage three types of Fokker D.VIIs, plus the new Roland and Pfalz models.
The June sun rises early on the Italian front and the only ones up earlier than the Italian and Austro-Hungarian fighters are the balloons on each side of the lines.
The age of the pusher plane is ending on the Western Front, but it’s not over yet as a group of the ungainly biplanes takes on a flight of German two-seaters and their Halberstadt D.II escorts.
In the Autumn of 1918 the air war is reaching its zenith and so are the new high performance fighter planes, which are now engaging in high altitude dogfights above 18,000 feet.