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Thursday, August 28, 2014

28 August 1914

The first dog-fight of the Great War is believed to have taken place on 28th August 1914, when Lieutenant Norman Spratt, flying a Sopwith Tabloid, forced down a German Albatros C.1 two-seater. This was an amazing achievement as his Sopwith was not armed.
Posted by Frank Van Haste at 00:30

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