ww1 - aerial warfare
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World War I was the first major conflict to see widespread use of powered aircraft -- invented barely more than a decade before the fighting began.
Airplanes, along with kites, tethered balloons, and zeppelins gave all major armies a new tactical platform to observe and attack enemy forces from above.
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A French two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft, flying over Compeign Sector, France ca. 1918.
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German pilot Richard Scholl and his co-pilot Lieutenant Anderer, in flight gear beside their biplane in 1918.
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German soldiers attend to a stack of gas canisters attached to a manifold, inflating a balloon on the Western front.
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A German Type Ae 800 observation balloon ascending.
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A captured German Taube monoplane, on display in the courtyard of Les Invalides in Paris, in 1915.
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Captain Ross-Smith (left) and Observer in front of a Modern Bristol Fighter, 1st Squadron A.F.C. Palestine, February 1918.
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Wreckage of a German Albatross D. III fighter biplane.
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Unidentified pilot wearing a type of breathing apparatus.
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A Farman airplane with rockets attached to its struts.
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A German Pfalz single-seat triplane fighter aircraft, 1918.
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Observer in a German balloon gondola shoots off light signals with a pistol.
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British reconnaissance plane flying over enemy lines, in France.
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German soldiers attend to an upended German aircraft.
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A Sunday morning service in an aerodrome in France.
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Captain Maurice Happe, rear seat, commander of French squadron MF 29, seated in his Farman MF.11 Shorthorn bomber with a Captain Berthaut.
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A German pilot lies dead in his crashed airplane in France, in 1918.
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Attaching a 100 kg bomb to a German airplane.
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An aircraft. crashed and burning in German territory, 1917.
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A Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter biplane aircraft taking off from a platform built on top of HMAS Australia's midships "Q" turret, in 1918.
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An aerial photographer with a Graflex camera, 1917
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14th Photo Section, 1st Army, "The Balloonatic Section". Capt. A. W. Stevens (center, front row) and personnel. 1918.
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No. 1 Squadron, a unit of the Australian Flying Corps, 1918.
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