Probably just me and my love for aviation but I was always fascinated with the 72 kills by Canadian ace Billy Bishop with the French built Nieuport 17, this aircraft probably isn't even in the top 10 for fighters during WW1 but Bishop sure was as a pilot,they claim his eyesight was almost superhuman and his air battles are legionary including the one with Manfred von Richthofen(the Red Baron) where he shot down two of four in the Barons entourage that day where afterwards he was nicknamed "hell's handmaiden" by the Germans.
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