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Photo shows a German aerial workshop at Adlershof. The tail on the right with "87" showing was from an Avro 504; the plane's full number was 874. Plane 874 was shot down during a raid on Freidrichshafen. This plane, together with Avros 873 and 875 took off from Belfort, France which was 125 miles from the target. The other two planes returned safely after being airborne for four hours. The Avro 504 could carry four 20 pound bombs

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Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron") posing beside Anthony Fokker. Both men are sitting on a crashed Allied plane. Richthofen, without goggles, is on the left. He is credited with 80 victories

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Oswald Boelcke was possibly the greatest military aviator of World War I. He was killed in an accident in October, 1916. In this photo, he is shown being helped into his flying jacket.

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A Farman pilot and observer demonstrate the wide forward and overhead arc of machine gun fire on these early planes.

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French Maurice Farman biplane flying over the Western Front in 1914

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Charles Nungesser was one of World War I's most wounded pilots. He had a coffin, a black heart, two burning candles, and a skull and crossbones insignia painted on his plane, as shown in the photo. He was France's third ranking ace with 45 victories to his name. He survived the war, but die in 1927 while attempting to fly the Atlantic.

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A French pilot, on his way to combat, took a picture of Charles Nungesser in his Nieuport fighter

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Royal Flying Corps flight training school at Gosport founded in July 1917 by Major R. R. Smith-Barry, who developed a new training method, which involved the use of the Gosport Inter-cockpit Speaking tube. This school was one of the first to receive the Avro 504J.

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British Bristol F-2B fighter/bomber flying over the Alps. Introduced in 1917, the plane could stay in the air for three hours. Its ceiling was 21,500 feet and it could reach a maximum speed of 123 mph at 5000 feet

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This Avro 504 variant, powered by a powerful 100 hp Gnome Monosoupape engine, became the standard RFC trainer. The photo shows Avro 504J fuselages awaiting delivery outside the Avro factory in Manchester

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U.S. pilots flying British Sopwith Camels readying for take-off from Dunkirk, August 1918.

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American trainer being readied for testing in 1916, a year before America entered the war

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US WW1 Patriotic recruiting poster calling young Americans into a new military role. This type of appeal got thousands interested in flying

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Raoul Lufbery posing in his Nieuport. Two French sergeants are also seen. One sergeant is holding "Whiskey," one of the two lion cub mascots with the squadron. The other cub was named "Soda."

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US top ace, Eddie Rickenbacker, with 26 victories. He survived the war.

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Troop ship HMAT Warilda

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Charlie Chaplin in his biggest hit, and one of the biggest of all times, Shoulder Arms, 1918