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Unlike any war the world had ever seen before, World War I was fought in two arenas: in the trenches and, for the first time, in the air. When the war broke out in 1914, the airplane, just a decade old, was untested as a weapon of combat. Yet over the course of the four-year conflict, fighters rapidly evolved from flimsy converted reconnaissance planes to powerful, deft machines of war. In this pictorial time line, witness the incremental innovations in Allied and German aviation engineering during the Great War.
—Lexi Krock
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