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View Poll Results: Which, of these aces, is your favorite?
Hermann Goring 2 4.65%
Erich Lowenhardt 9 20.93%
Karl Wolff 3 6.98%
Raoul Lufbery 8 18.60%
Frank Luke 10 23.26%
Francis Gillet 0 0%
George McElroy 2 4.65%
Robert Little 2 4.65%
Georges Madon 1 2.33%
Alexander Kozakov 6 13.95%
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Old 1 October 2007, 02:50 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I'd have to vote for Oberleutnant Erich Lowenhardt (of course; wouldn't you vote for someone you're related to?).
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Charles Biddle. He lived about a mile from where I went to high school. Never had the chance to meet him, alas.

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Has to be Luke.He's a daredevil,he's a master of balloon busting,a true american.
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Old 1 October 2007, 06:50 PM   #4 (permalink)
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you have left out alot of Aces??

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My votes goes to Major Edward Mannock, C.O. of 85 Squadron RAF(S.E.5a).
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Luke was a daredevil, no question about that. Great pilot, but fate just put him in the wrong place at the wrong time. Aw well, he took out 7 Germans before he was slain.

McElroy was the same, but he was a very wreckless pilot who didn't use his brain, which finally got him killed.
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My favorite Ace is Werner Voss (as You can see on my avatar). Why he isn't in list? I like many German pilots- Gabriel, Weiss, MvR also Loewenhardt.
 
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My favorite Alexander Kozakov, the best Ace from Russian.
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I'd have to vote for Oberleutnant Erich Lowenhardt (of course; wouldn't you vote for someone you're related to?).
hi loewenhardt!!My favorite ace is,and allways has been manfred von richthofen!!!! REDBARONGIRL
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My vote is to Kiss József (or in German form: Josef Kiss), the most succesful Hungarian fighter ace of WW I and an extraordinary man and pilot.
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My best Ace is Georges Guynemer even he is not in your list because he is for me a True Hero wo put his duty for his country above his own life: not always he case for aces like Fonck who was only a tactician,or some others who consider the air war like a "sport" between "gentlemen "from different country in conflict at that moment.

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