Re: Freikorps Air Force Air to Air Victories
I have never read of any aerial victories during the Baltic fighting, although several aircraft were used they were largely used for reconnaissance/ bombing and ground attack. Even major conflicts like the Russian Civil War and Russo-Polish War brought very few air-to-air engagements. The Freikorps units were small and their opponents, the Red Army, Estonia and Latvia (the last two not Bolshevik) had few aircraft. I am not even sure there was anything that could be called a Freikorps air force. Units were formed around the various German right-wing bandit gangs without any real cohesion, and without any impact. The Freikorps disappeared from the Baltic leaving nothing behind but a legacy of incompetence, murder and theft.
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