ABOUT THIS PRODUCT
This book traces the combat history of the most famous and highest-scoring
fighter group in France’s World War I Aviation Militaire. Groupe de Combat
12 boasted the highest-scoring Allied fighter pilot, RenÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃé Fonck, and
France’s most celebrated hero of the air, Georges Guynemer. Its ranks
included numerous other famous aces, such as Rene’s Dorme, Alfred Heurteaux,
Albert Deullin, and American volunteers Edwin Parsons and Frank L. Baylies.
Additionally, Guynemer was instrumental in developing France’s premier
series of fighter planes, the SPAD VII, XII, XIII and XVII.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
A resident of Leesburg, Virginia, Jon Guttman is senior editor, research
director and contributing writer for Primedia Enthusiast Publications.
Specialising in World War I aviation, he has written eight titles in the
past, including Aircraft of the Aces 39: SPAD VII Aces of World War I’ and
Aircraft of the Aces 47: SPAD XII/XIII Aces of World War II’.Harry Dempsey
has been passionate about World War I aviation for over 30 years, producing
the most technically accurate artwork on the subject. He has illustrated
every one of the World War I books in the Aircraft of the Aces series to
date.





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