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Albert Ball è stato un aviatore britannico. Fu un asso dell'aviazione britannico tra i più importanti durante la prima guerra mondiale. Al momento della sua morte, il suo numero di vittorie era solamente inferiore a quello dell'asso tedesco Manfred von Richthofen.
Albert Ball, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC (14 August 1896 – 7 May 1917) was a British fighter pilot during the First World War. At the time of his death he was the United Kingdom's leading flying ace, with 44 victories, and remained its fourth-highest scorer behind Edward Mannock, James McCudden, and George McElroy. [1]
Not of the eponymous Sheriff, but of a 20-year-old fighter ace of the Great War, Albert Ball VC. Albert is with the angels, both literally and metaphorically and looks out over the city of his birth. Ball was the son of a director of the Austin Motor Company and Lord Mayor of Nottingham.
Albert Ball was the first British ace idolized by the public. An engineering student when the war began, he joined the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion of The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) and was promoted to Serjeant on 29 October 1914.
Albert Ball (born Aug. 21, 1896, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died May 7, 1917, Annoeullin, near Lens, Fr.) was a British fighter ace during World War I who achieved 43 victories in air combat. Ball was educated at Trent College, which he left in 1913.
2 giorni fa · Captain Albert Ball was Britain's highest scoring profile fighter pilot during the First World War. Albert Ball was born on 14 August 1896 in Nottingham to successful businessman Albert Ball, who went on to be knighted, and Harriett Mary Page.
Captain Albert Ball led one formation that went out at 5:30 PM on a heavily overcast, drizzling day. The British S.E.5 squadron met a circus of red-and-white painted Albatroses and a wild dogfight ensued. The battle spread out for miles in the darkening, rainy skies; guns fired, engines whined, and planes dived.
