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HUN_gattaca_lg
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
What is the correct spelling, Boelcke (with the letter 'c') or Boelke?

Boelke:
As a pilot, try to place yourself between the sun and the enemy. This puts the glare of the sun in the enemy's eyes and makes it difficult to see you and impossible for him to shoot with any accuracy. - dicta boelke

Oswald Boelcke:
The pilots of the German Hunting Squadrons, also known as the Jastas, were trained to follow the guidelines set by Oswald Boelcke in his "Dicta Boelcke". It contained a series of aerial combat techniques that covered both attack procedures and tactics.

Dicta Boelcke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicta_Boelcke)
The Dicta Boelcke is a list of fundamental aerial maneuvers of aerial combat formulated by First World War German flying ace Oswald Boelcke. Equipped with one of the first fighter aircraft, Boelcke became Germany's foremost flying ace during 1915 and 1916. Because of his success in aerial combat and analytic mind, he was tasked by Colonel Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen with writing a pamphlet on aerial tactics. Completed in June 1916, it was distributed throughout the German Army's Air Service (Die Fliegertruppen des Deutschen Reiches), some two years before the French and British militaries followed suit with their own tactical guides. Air combat tactical manuals based on the Dicta Boelcke have become more elaborate over time, and have become a mainstay for NATO's air combat training of American, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Turkish, Italian, and Greek fighter pilots.
- devinrodgersr
  2 years ago
  Did the game developers provide any additional context or background information for the loading screen text and the events it references? www myfedloan idrapp
  - HUN_gattaca_lg
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    @devinrodgersr
    Here is an in-game information (radium sight), short historical fact (radium night sight) and skin name (Undark) crossover:
    
    Battlefield 1's iron sights (https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_sights#Battlefield_1)
    In addition to each weapon's default iron sights, four alternate iron sights are available: -The Radium Sight is a pair of easy acquisition, radium illuminated sights for single-action rifles. The Maschinenpistole M1912/P.16 is also capable of having the sight, the only weapon not used by the Scout class capable of doing so.
    
    Many armies experimented with "night sights" for rifles and other weapons, utilizing small amounts of fluorescent and radioactive radium on the sights to improve night time target acquisition.
    
    Undark skin for 12g Automatic shotgun
    Undark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undark)
    Undark was a trade name for luminous paint made with a mixture of radioactive radium and zinc sulfide, as produced by the U.S. Radium Corporation between 1917 and 1938. It was used primarily in watch and clock dials. The people working in the industry who applied the radioactive paint became known as the Radium Girls, because many of them became ill and some died from exposure to the radiation emitted by the radium contained within the product. The product was the direct cause of radium jaw in the dial painters. Undark was also available as a kit for general consumer use and marketed as glow-in-the-dark paint.
    
    Undark and the Radium Girls (https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/)
    Hammer’s recipe was used by the US Radium Corporation during the First World War to produce Undark, a high-tech paint which allowed America’s infantrymen to read their wristwatches and instrument panels at night. They also marketed the pigment for non-military products such as house numbers, pistol sights, light switch plates, and glowing eyes for toy dolls. By this time the dangers of radium were better understood, but US Radium assured the public that their paint used the radioactive element in “such minute quantities that it is absolutely harmless.” While this was true of the products themselves, the amount of radium present in the dial-painting factory was much more dangerous, unbeknownst to the workers there.