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Official website of the Osprey Publishing reveals a new release of an early aviation related book in the well-known "Aircraft of the Aces" series.
Aircraft of the Aces 104
Author: Jon Guttman
Illustrator: Harry Dempsey

Paperback
Release date: May 2012
96 pages
ISBN: 9781849086646

Book content:
  • Der Fliegende Kriegsmarine
  • Zeebrugge Hornet’s Nest
  • Aces Above the Baltic
  • Detached Duty
  • Action Over the Adriatic
  • Appendices (Naval Aces, Colour Plates Commentary)

About this book
This second Naval Aces of World War 1 book looks at the many flying naval heroes who served alongside or against those of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). While the RNAS operated its own formidable arsenal of Nieuport and Sopwith scouts over the Flanders coast, the German Navy countered with its own Land Feld Jagdstaffeln and Seefront Staffeln. Unique to World War 1 was the use of flying boats as fighters in combat, which figured at least partially in the scores of Russian aces Aleksandr de Seversky and Mikhail Safanov. The best flying boat fighter, however, was Italy’s Macchi M 5, flown by three aces and also the mount of Charles H Hammann, the first American to earn the Medal of Honor in aerial combat. Also unique were the sole US Navy ace, David Ingalls, who scored his six victories while attached to No 213 Sqn RAF, and Greek ace Artitides Moraitinis, credited with nine victories over Salonika and the Dardanelles.


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Very timely! Part one was a jewel. I really look forward to checking this out.
FEB 23, 2012 - 12:43 PM
"Der fliegende Kriegsmarine"?! It is "Die fliegende Kriegsmarine". Wrong gender in the article. Hurts the eye about the same way as reading "He went down with all hands" in a book about the Hood. Sorry, but if they cannot get their German right in a chapter heading, I'll pass on that one...
FEB 23, 2012 - 09:44 PM
This one is looking very tempting (as does pt1) Love the cover art. I feel a trip over to Osprey's web-shop is coming on soon! Mikael
FEB 23, 2012 - 09:51 PM
Finster ist die Nacht Matrosenlied Matrosenchor der Kriegsmarine Berlin (transliterated) = The sailor song, sailor choir of the Kriegsmarine Berlin, night is dark LINK Der fliegende Kriegsmarine = The flying Navy (masculine) Die fliegende Kriegsmarine = The flying Navy (feminine) Organizations are masculine in 1918 German vocabulary. Modern revisions tend to make organizations either neuture or Feminine. Das fliegende Kriegsmarine = That flying Navy (neuture)
FEB 24, 2012 - 07:12 AM
German is a bit tricky. I know, as I did 6 years of it in school... And I still could not master der, die, das properly. Heres a link thats interesting on the subject: german lesson A fast google check does give the answer that Der Kriegsmarine is right, at least during WWII, so my guess is that the chapter heading is correct! My two pfenning on the subject. Mikael
FEB 24, 2012 - 07:35 AM
It's even trickier than you think. The article changes with the case of the noun. nominative: the flying Kriegsmarine is great = die fliegende Kriegsmarine ist großartig genitive: aircraft of the flying Kriegsmarine = Flugzeuge der fliegenden Kriegsmarine dative: our lives to the flying Kriegsmarine = unsere Leben der fliegenden Kriegsmarine accusative: we love the flying Kriegsmarine = wir lieben die fliegende Kriegsmarine What you find when you google "der Kriegsmarine" is just genitive or dative case, like "Schiffe der Kriegsmarine" (ships of the Kriegsmarine). Tricky? not if you grow up with it. German has only four cases, Russian has six... Believe me: "Kriegsmarine" has NEVER been a male word.
FEB 28, 2012 - 05:54 AM
Then there is the separable verb at the end of sentences.
FEB 28, 2012 - 08:51 AM
Mine has arrived. Review in progress.
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