French ace René Dorme with his Nieuport 17 in September 1916.
A comrade of Georges Guynemer in the legendary “Storks”
Escadrille N. 3 (note the Cigogne emblem on the fuselage),
Dorme chalked up his first 17 victories in the last six months
of 1916. He brought his score to 23 confirmed kills before he
was killed in combat on May 25, 1917. (Photo courtesy of
Greg van Wyngarden)
The best of the successors to the Fokker Eindecker series was
the sleek Albatros D. I (seen here) and the similar D.II. Powered
by a 160hp Mercedes, the Albatros was the first fighter with twin
synchronized machine guns as standard armament. Oswald
Boelcke scored his final victories in an Albatros, and his promising
pupil Manfred von Richthofen achieved his initial successes in the
D.I and D.II. (Photo courtesy of Greg van Wyngarden)
