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Old 2 November 2009, 06:37 PM   #12 (permalink)
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"The German aviator is disciplined, resolute and brave, and is a foeman worthy of our best...The more I fight them the more I respect them for their fighting qualities...The marvellous fight which Voss put up against my formation will ever leave in my mind a most profound admiration for him, and the other instances which I have witnessed of the skill and bravery of German pilots give me pause to acknowledge that the German aviators as a whole are worthy of the very best which the Allies can find to combat them."
_Major James T.B. McCudden, RFC


"There are people who claim Guynemer had a stoppage himself then. Others claim he feared I might ram him in desperation. But I don't believe any of them. I still believe to this day that a bit of chivalry from the past has continued to survive. For this reason I lay this belated wreath on Guynemer's unknown grave."
- Ernst Udet, describing the fight in which he was spared by Guynemer after his guns jammed
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