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A prominent aviator in the Battle of the Atlantic
had made two unsuccessful attacks
the Red Baron
had a beam of 118 feet
Patiently awaiting the coming onslaught in tightly packed schiltroms
Leutnant Josef Jacobs by Ivan Berryman. (AP) CAM2 A prominent aviator in theDHM1584AP. Leutnant Josef Jacobs by Ivan Berryman. Germays greatest exponent of the Fokker Dr1 Triplane, Leutnant Josef Jacobs is depicted chatting with colleagues of Jasta 7 before a sortie in the spring of 1918. His black Triplane became well known to allied pilots, not least because of his formidable kill rate. By the end of the war, still aged just 24, Jacobs had claimed 48 enemy aircraft destroyed. The unusual practice of applying the black cross