The supremacy of the air
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While processing a lot of World War I aircraft books for Cedar Creek Trail Books, I found this epigraph in the front of The Fighters: The Men and Machines of the First Air War by Thomas R. Funderburk (1965):
"The Supremacy of the Air"
"Despite the victory, and even if it is a hard-wrested victory, there is always that sad regret, that human sympathy for the victim, who was, after all, another pilot like oneself..."
Hermann Becker
I haven't been able to find the source of the quotation. No doubt it is in German since Becker was a German fighter pilot in World War I. On Wikipedia: Hermann Becker.
Honor in combat and competition.