"The deployment of the Jastas followed closely to what Hauptman Oswald Boelcke had envisaged before his death, the 'Red Baron', Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen in particular, always having took pride in having stayed true to his late contemporary and friend's pedagogy. However the Jastas rosters or lineups themselves changed rapidly with the death or disablement of pilots during missions.
By 1917 many more of Jagdstaffeln, or Jastas, hunting groups, were created in Bavaria, Saxony and elsewhere, with their bases of operations spread between the various theaters of war, from France, to Russia, Macedonia, Palestine, and Turkey, the German air services rapidly expanded in the months from 1916 into spring 1917. Though all the major German Kingdoms fielded Jagdstaffeln, Bavaria, Prussia, Saxony, & Württemburg among them, it was the Prussians who were the undoubted paramount force in the aerial war over the Western Front from 1917-1918, larger, with more victories and missions flown than any other German state…"
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