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3 unusual facts about Fokker Eindecker fighters


Fokker Eindecker fighters

Boyne, Walter J. The Smithsonian Book of Flight for Young People.

The E.III was test-flown against the Morane-Saulnier N and other Allied types at St. Omer before going to Upavon in Wiltshire for evaluation and finally going on museum display.

On 8 April 1916, a novice German pilot took off from Valenciennes with a new E.III (IdFlieg serial number 210/16) bound for Wasquehal but became lost in haze and landed at a British aerodrome east of St. Omer.



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