Word: nieuport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rickenbacker learned to fly in 17 days, joined the 94th Squadron under Captain James Norman Hall (later the co-author of Mutiny on the Bounty), and soon was diving in his Nieuport fighter to within 150 yds. of enemy planes before opening fire. When Hall was shot down and captured by the Germans, Rickenbacker took over Hall's group-and later the entire squadron-in the battle against the "Flying Circus" of "Red" Baron Manfred von Richthofen. By the end of the war, Rickenbacker had shot down 26 German planes and blimps, and had been awarded 56 decorations, including...