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[[image:flying_circus.jpg width="640" height="477" align="right"]]Flying Circus
The Flying Circus (also known as the Jagdgeschwader 1, JG 1, and Richthofen's Circus) was a military strategy of the Germans developed during WWI that was led by a man named Manfred von Richthofen. The strategy was developed on June 24, 1917, and was comprised of four Jastas. It came to be known as the Flying Circus because it had very colorful airplanes and used tents and railways to travel. The Flying Circus went into the front line of combat whenever needed and often had to go at very short notice. It destroyed 644 fighter planes of the Allied forces and only had 52 pilots killed from June 1917 to November 1918.