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[suckersgame]

Bobby Gadling is a perfectly decent pilot.

Perfectly decent was not enough to save him this time.

He's lying in the wreckage of his plane, face gashed, some shrapnel in his side, slowly clawing himself out and dragging away.

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[the_enemy_ace]

It was one of the early patrols with the Fokker Triplane - a craft that had the ascendancy over anything the Allies possessed. He had struck from above and behind, death on blood-red wings. But, for once, a rarity above all, the plane had landed behind the lines, the signs of life apparent in it.

He lowered the Fokker, cutting the engine, and it bounced to a slow stop. He bounded from the cockpit, priming his pistol. It was time to see if the pilot was going to live.