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Bristol,
You're correct to be suspicious about the value of creating an elite unit by taking the best men from other units. The case of JG 1 is a case in point. The idea of massing multiple Jastas at a critical point was a great idea, but allowing MvR to pick and chose talent from other units probably wasn't neccessary. At the end of the time frame of this tread however, JG 1 was losing experianced pilots to lead the new Jastas being formed. This dilution of talent, combined with the attrition of the last half of 1917, must have affected JG 1 as well.
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