Sorry for being late today, there's only one chapter!
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The German Army's "Fokker D.VII" squadron suffered a crushing defeat, with only 7 out of 50 aircraft managing to narrowly escape the battlefield under the pursuit of the French Army's "Jenny A" aircraft.
The key point is that all the pilots who returned to the battlefield refused to take to the air again, without exception:
"This is a meaningless battle, fighting against them is suicide."
"The performance of our aircraft compared to the enemy's is far too inferior; this is not something human effort can remedy."
"If there was even a sliver of hope for victory, even just a little, we would execute the orders without hesitation. But that's just throwing ourselves to our deaths, a meaningless death!"
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Thus, the situation Hindenburg imagined of seizing air superiority and stopping the French Army did not occur.
