Driggs article retrieved: June '18 NG

The Driggs article is titled: "Aces Amorg Aces" and runs from 568-580 pp. As of 15 June the scores and aaverrages were, in descending order: Germany = 88 aces witdh 1670 A/C downed = 18.9 avg; Italy = 14 aces with 193 A/C downed = 13.7 avg; GB = 86 aces with 950 A/C downed = 11 avg; France = 74 aces with 755 A/C downed = 11 avg; Russia = 03 aces with 26 A/C downed = 8.6 avg; Belgium = 08 aces with 60 A/C downed = 7.5 avg; and America = 11 aces with 83 A/C downed = 7.5 avg.
Overall: 193 Allied aces downed 2041 E/As = 10.5 avg and 88 German aces downed 1670 E/A = 18.9 avg.
Latourette stated: "...that German tactics in the air have permitted the enemy to destroy 4/5ths (81.1%) as maany aeroplanes with 1/2 (45%) the number of aces."
Further: "Cowardly as those tactics are, unsportsmanlike as the enemy aces admit themselves to be, the German method of air fighting has proved its sueriority over the more daring and generous tactics of the Allies, both in the use of manpower and in efficiency."
It were unsportsmanlike for the Jerries to use parchutes and to invite our boys to fight on the Jerry side, and certainly to use pile on attacks and flyby passes to knock off the strays or cripples.
And it was certainly unsportsmanlike for Werner Voss to take on Jimmy McCudden's flight, when he had a hang over from too much schnapps.
But despite the attrition rate the GAF was there right up to the end.