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Bloody April - Battle of Arras


April 2017
Germans: 66 aircraft, better planes, better trained fighters, better tactics. "Red Baron"
Brits: 245 planes, 400 aircrew. 207 killed, 108 PoW. New pilots just lasted a couple of days.

Hart, P., 2005. Bloody April Slaughter in the Skies over Arras, 1917 - book

RFC pilot reminiscences about Arras and the Somme