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Allegedly Bishop said "If I got a clear shot at a Hun, he was a dead man."
But then BB said a lot of things, including...awnevermind!
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" We flew side by side laughing at each other for a few seconds.and then we waved adieu to each other and went off.He was a real sport that Hun."
- Captain Albert Ball RFC

"Aerial gunnery is 90 percent instinct and 10 percent aim."
-Captain Frederick C. Libby, RFC.

"The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself."
— Lt. Colonel W. A. 'Billy' Bishop,RAF/ RCAF.

"Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder."
— Captain Edward V. 'Eddie' Rickenbacker, USAS

" We had a strict code of honor: you didn't shoot down a cripple and you kept it a fair fight."
— Captain Wilfrid Reid 'Wop' May, RFC

"Good flying never killed [an enemy] yet."
— Major Edward 'Mick' Mannock, RAF
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Remind me, chaps...
who made the reference to having the "customers come to the shop"? Boelcke? Or MvR quoting Boelcke.
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... if one was ever over the Salient in the autumn of 1917 and saw an SE5 fighting like Hell amidst a heap of Huns, one would find nine times out of ten that the SE was flown by Rhys Davids.
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Thanks rexee! so many good ones to choose from.
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It was a dream,conjecturable as heaven,resembling no life we knew.
We were trained with one object-to kill.
We had only one hope-to live.
When it was over we had to start again.
I do not complain of this.
It was a fine introduction to life
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It was a dream,conjecturable as heaven,resembling no life we knew.
We were trained with one object-to kill.
We had only one hope-to live.
When it was over we had to start again.
I do not complain of this.
It was a fine introduction to life
Hi Ginger.do you know who said this?
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