GREAT WAR FIGHTER ACES 1914-1916: Images of War

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Profiles some of the greatest fighter aces and their aircraft to see action during the first half of the First World War. He explores the manner in which the situation developed from late 1914 to the late summer of 1916 -- to the point at which Oswald Boelcke helped form the German Jasta system that would prove so devastating to the RFC and RNAS.

The first years of the war saw some of the bravest acts of pilot gallantry and ingenuity play out. Franks celebrates the legacy of just a handful of these individuals, participants on both sides, including Boelcke's premier ace Manfred Von Richtofen, Lanoe Hawker, Georges Guynemer, Albert Ball, Lionel Rees, Wilhelm Frankl, Stanley Dallas, and others.