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Show German Airplanes Far Superior to British It was not courage alone that gave the German air forces their decided superiority over the British early In 1917, just before the United States entered the war, points out Floyd Gibbons, Gib-bons, noted war correspondent, In an article in Liberty. "German technical genius and Industrial efliciency were responsible in no small degree for the successes of her Hying forces. They brought out their new spring model planes at least six months before the British could deliver theirs at the front. "For this failure on the part of home production in England," Gibbons Gib-bons declares, "scores of young British Brit-ish flyers paid with their lives. Their old, last-year machines, slow and cumbersome, cum-bersome, were hopelessly outclassed by the new German scouts. The German Ger-man nuicliir.es could literally lly circles cir-cles around their adversaries; could oittclimb and outmaneuver any British Brit-ish plane in the air." |