I'm reading a novel right now that is set immediately after the Great War and mentions pilots mixing it up with Jerries over the channel. Seems a bit more like a WW2 allusion....I know the Germans sent Gotha bombers over, but haven't really encountered a lot of cross-channel combat in my previous WW1 air war reading. Going to dig into it furher!
I certainly haven't heard of anything like dog-fighting in the Channel during WW1. The Germans did indeed send over bombers (later on) and zeppelins (earlier) but fighters on both sides were *very* short range compared to WW2. It sounds like someone didn't do enough research & has gotten their wars mixed up!
Fortunately, this isn't military historical fiction, more social. I doubt most of her readers will be fact-checking. Interestingly, the beaching of a U-boat in Sussex is part of the story.
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I'm reading a novel right now that is set immediately after the Great War and mentions pilots mixing it up with Jerries over the channel. Seems a bit more like a WW2 allusion....I know the Germans sent Gotha bombers over, but haven't really encountered a lot of cross-channel combat in my previous WW1 air war reading. Going to dig into it furher!
I certainly haven't heard of anything like dog-fighting in the Channel during WW1. The Germans did indeed send over bombers (later on) and zeppelins (earlier) but fighters on both sides were *very* short range compared to WW2. It sounds like someone didn't do enough research & has gotten their wars mixed up!
Fortunately, this isn't military historical fiction, more social. I doubt most of her readers will be fact-checking. Interestingly, the beaching of a U-boat in Sussex is part of the story.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ships/sm-u-118.html#:~:text=On%20April%2015%2C%201919%2C%20while%20journeying%20to%20the,washed%20ashore%20on%20a%20beach%20in%20Hastings%2C%20Sussex.
Of course, her town has a different name than Hastings.
I posted a piccy of the submarine - or at least *a* beached submarine here:
https://cyberkittenspot.blogspot.com/2020/03/blog-post_62.html
That's the one! Same number, just a different angled shot.
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