Out Of The Sun - LFG Roland C.II by Ivan Berryman. (AP) ART447

Out Of The Sun - LFG Roland C.II by Ivan Berryman. (AP) ART447DHM1788AP. Out Of The Sun LFG Roland C. II by Ivan Berryman. One of the few rules of aerial combat that were established in the First World War was to attack, where possible, with the sun behind you, thus using the element of surprise both to appear as if from nowhere and to blind your opponent to minimise retaliation. Just such a tactic has been successfully employed here as a DH. 2 rakes the tail of Staffelfuhrer Hauptmann Rudolf Kleine's Jasta 3

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Assigned to the 393rd Bombardment Squadron

Size 50 inches x 30 inches (108cm x 76cm)

an achievement that will likely never be surpassed

The 262 was totally ineffective in a turning duel with Allied fighters

The middle area shows Col

are employed for the first time during the allied assault on the St Mihiel Salient

Although often depicted in another aircraft

Pilot Flight Sergeant Arthur Louis Aaron DFM was awarded the Victoria Cross

comes in for the kill but the British gunners deliver such a devastating broadside into this new assailant that she is completely demasted and strikes her colours

Heavy Tank Battalion 503 Tiger Is were divided into small groups to protect and support infantry units as they retreated from the Donets river line

Vickers Vanguard 1970s by David Pentland