This might be sidetracking the thread, but to me, the real badass of the German WW1 aces was Werner Voss. He flew the unique Fokker F.1 prototype triplane that led to the famous Fokker DR.1; it was assigned to him as his personal aircraft, and painted a silver gray that blended into the sky. He scored 48 kills, and it took an entire group of multiple British flights, over a dozen aircraft in all mostly flown by aces, to finally corral him and bring him down. He put at least five out of the fight and bullet holes in every one of them before finally being fatally wounded, losing his engine, and going into his death dive. Read more about him here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Voss
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