HASBRO Air Fighters Game History WWI User Manual

.

GF(34Lt

Neck,

L.

MILTON

1LI.USTRATIONS COURTESY U.S. AIR

MUSEUM;

NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM; CULVER PICTURES; PAUL A. ROCKWELL;

BRADLEY

MUSEE

DE

L'A~;

COMPANY

FORCE;

ARCHIV

KRUEGER;

THOMPSON RAM0 WOOWRIDGE, INC.;

NATIONAL

I.,

New

Yak

SPRINGF'IELD,

ARCHIVES;

PETER

U.S.

M. CR-.

IbWEUAL

NATIONAL

WAR

MUSEUM;

I

I

A

French airfield, painted

1916.

in
the right is

The fighter seen al

a

Nieuport

IZ.

iandards, the fighter planes of World

ing contraptions. An advanced typelike the French

War

I

were

plan
unreliable,
neuvers. There

were

bullet could turn

80maimes wings

no such thine

a

plane into

snapped

a

flaming

as

selfdealing

torch in'

off

and

the last weeks of the war there were no parachutes.

The story of some of these aces, their fighting
planes they flew is told on the following pages.
counts of their combats, you will

those met by the players of

find

Dogfight.

them in

Whether you

bore in for the kill, the choices you face are the

like

faced great aces

Richthofen and Bishop and

that first air war more than forty years am.

\

R

-,

.

--

2.

else but observing enemy
fire. If they were to become offensive weapons,

to

found

:

also aimed the gun. The trouble

mount a machine gun

troop

movements and directi-,

so

that

was

by

aiming his pl

that

the propeller

a

waf

a!

p

30

I

JqA4

PIJOA4

U~W~U~I

a3!~oaej s~leg .l!dy<m

e

~J!M

8upo3s 'y3~31e

aq1 ql!~ u! 1la3

~addn ayl uo un8 au!q~enr e

3!1381

s,uew.ra3 aql om! s1aIInq

aW3 xgaAIPAW&

pm

u!lo!n ayl paXard oy~

pue

~!MS

p~g

$U!M

01

se~

dn

dy uarp-ur!y pu!yaq pue ~01aq-1ods

.~ija~

pam

'iods pugq x!ayl ow! paddys ay

a%

om! d!lg

o!y

Awua ayl ssis~nq y3!nb

aIqm e Aq

ue

m.8

peq

puw

pama33 osp 11~8

.

,...-

;

.8(4A.,

,

.

pqq s,~muoddo
Fw~fnOd

q"

wpwj

a

,

-'

:,

*hpe&wdq

:$i+

.!

%

,

-

,-.

.

.

-.

.

7

87)

[":.$,'

4,.

7,+

,-

•

,::

'

.

I;,.:!

[.->.*-;>

;

3,:.

\

p-23

sv

01

'mql

azd au

pm

'ayqaog

p

plonoo

rarpznts

01

'1s~) una1

119 aq1 u!

30

X~ue~ad

JEM

hraaa u~

o

8u?4

?a

ay,

acorn

bI&

~$3

m,~,q3~

+q'jCxq

tg16@3

-ny:

-

sayyoj

v

sumop 'un8 paz?uo~y3uds pado

EM

.aIqeraanautrxr

os 'smfiq~

swaas 3gqnd-

wmv!nb

OW

11

01

<lano3 pnep 30 a%tue~pe aqm

01

,-

--

sj+w~~

.-raylo ayl oi ap!s$po meiq-ms muqeq

.syaaM aaq sefi lopd la~~$$a

q

puewap

w-33

k

"*

:.

-3unoD suema3 aq1 ueyl a1alqsqa_axrod

'JEM

a91 inoq8noly~ 1uaM

aql

pauleaI s~ol!d .n!13el 8upy8y aqi p!p os 'paao~dnu! saule~d ay,
pulqaq uns ayl ql!~ 73~33~

FL,--

-I

slo[!d MaN .saqsnqwe o~u! s1uauoddo.~t$& dmp

ppT

F

Y

'ayns!w e la~8a.1~1 pany moplas

+

aql leql ino pa~n8y auoawos

-.

All the way down the red
ripping burst after burst of rnachiae-gun
from the rear. I remember seeingt1le'windsleicM
face

fly

I

-

-'

I1

The ground was coming up at a fearful

,

.

then, because I don't remember theera&.

+

1.

Edward Mannock, with semy&ee

ranking British ace. Like RicW~,

nnock hated all Germam,
ulged in. "When you shd'

plane-aim for the piloha

is British fighter had a ve&le armament, wit

and marksmanship. He pitched into a forma

a

-A

A

.

-+*A

mat-..

away in small pieces, and'ihen

and

.

kept

&i*

hc

told

lalz

sewera1 omasions

.

.

~@@-

bulk~

the.

mt~,

,.Am&&

.

.

."a

V~MCS,

he

h&

WPS

a

am

MZ

hawmihi--':$

.

,

WS.S

~IIZ

Elk

sanething

pilot, 'doa!t

~@IWW

.

,

tfrci-

instin&

he

dvez

a&&

%

,q

-+

'2%:

..

UT

>?$

-$,

'>

While

st.

aces

To

cap off his

like

Md

anbIG&r.b&m

d

n8vM

.

',.

:--<

,

,.

:fF

.

-

.-

.

guns

blazing

-

with

Lt.

molished balloons at a phenome-

-

nal rate. One evening he promised

'

he would destroy three particular
balloons within twenty minutes.
Before an amazed group of high­ranking officers he

,

{,-

$although iie complained that

,&?d taken hiin twenty-six minutes.

6.2'

~n.,$gitpmb-er 18, 1918, Luke

p

:

:

,cLpulle$3h~ ,all the stopsb ~&h

2'Wehner .@yifig cover; he. plunged'

through vicious grgund fire to de-

stroy

two

ary bu~lets,As
he

raw

seven Fokker D-7s. He barreled into the

F~kker apart in a head-on attack, and
kn6ck down a second one. But: ~eh

id

to his field, Luke spotted a two-$
French Spads. He horned in and shoi
bag of two balloons and three planes in ten minutes.

When Ae learnedY&<wehner had
into brooding grief.
two unauthorized flights brought. the order to ground him until
further notice. Luke heard the order, dashed out to his plane, and
took off again. His cammanding officer was furious. "l'm recom-

mending him for the Distinguished Service Cross," he snappd,

"and then, by God, I'm going to court-martial him!"

Frank Luke got neither, for he was on his last patrol. He daol­ished two fighten and burned' three balloons, was wounded,
crash-landed
graveyard, blazing away at German soldiers with a

unta

.&

b;-

his op-

went down. Teamed up

Joseph Wehner, he de-

did

just

that-

balloons with incendi-

h$

zoomed upward

wehner

trying

to

hold

A

furlough failed'to shake his black mood, and

his

Spad behind the German lines; he died in a church

off

-1-

r

it

A

been

.

.

killed, Luke

.45

was

ahtomatic.

"

-:,A

plunged

American flyers served their apprenticeship with

or British squadrons. Lt. David Putnam, for instance,

okker D-7s. His

and