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Hans Roser (Marburg, 29 March 1893 – Ieper, 25 July 1915) was a German air observer during the First World War. He was a member of one of the ''Feldflieger Abteilung'' reconnaissance units tied to a German army unit, with the rank of ''Fliegerhauptmann''. On 25 July 1915 he was shot down by the British pilot Lanoe Hawker, east of the legendary Hill 62. == The fight == In the beginning of World War I, fire-arms were not common on airplanes. Sometimes pilots tried to shoot at each other with rifles and guns but usually this was too difficult and useless. By the late spring of 1915, the Germans invented the gun synchronizer that allowed a machine gun to fire through the propeller, but at the time of Roser's death the British had not developed a similar system. So Lanoe Hawker put a Lewis Gun at the side of his plane firing at an angle forwards and sideways, so that it could not shoot the blades of his own propeller. On 25 July 1915 three German planes flew over Allied territory. Hawker was flying alone, but took on all three. The first plane he tried to shoot at was seen to spin downwards but it is not certain whether it crashed. He successfully hit the second forcing it to make an emergency landing. The third plane was less fortunate: it was shot and fell out of the sky, burning and smoking. Roser fell (or jumped, this is not clear) out of the plane and fell to earth. Some reports say that he was captured alive and died later, but this is extremely unlikely as he fell from over a thousand metre. Hawker was rewarded with a Victoria Cross. Hawker died a year later (24 November 1916), after he had been shot down by the German's Red Baron. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Roser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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