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Russ,
Comparing those numbers from April and September shows quite clearly that the Germans had lost the initiative on the British front no later than the summer of 1917. The reason for this, it seems to me, is the German understandable preoccupation with defence against the unremitting British aggression. This is why I find this period so interesting. Airpower doctrine was reaching a level of maturity and by early 1918, could be called fully modern. All that remained was for technology to catch up.
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