Chapter 27: Erwin-32

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Earlier in The Great War, luftpilot Göring unknowingly engaged, but escaped unscathed, unshaken, unstirred, and unabashed, the most famous Canadian flying ace somewhere high in the the air over the line between France and Germany, somehow cheating death, cowardly diving away into the clouds, but avoiding humiliation, their brief encounter of the first kind lasting only seconds, but was recorded as a margin note in the flight record and diary of Air Marshal Erwin Angus Summersby VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (February 8, 1894 – September 21, 1956), a flying ace in World War I, officially credited with seventy two (72) victories, making him the top British Empire and Canadian ace of the war, which earned him First Team Consensus All-World Fighter Pilot status from both the (AP) writers and

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