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National Experiences - British Commission for Military History

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320 ai r p o w e r in 20 t H Ce n t u ry do C t r i n e s a n d em p l o y m e n t - nat i o n a l ex p e r i e n C e s<br />

Çanakkale, First Lieutenant<br />

Fazıl conducted<br />

reconnaissance flights<br />

around the Islands of<br />

Gökçeada (Imbros),<br />

Tenedos and Lemnos.<br />

Though the Ottoman<br />

army already began to<br />

use aircraft in Çanakkale<br />

in August 1914,<br />

it took six months that<br />

the first <strong>British</strong> aircraft<br />

arrived the area.<br />

Another two-man<br />

Yeşilköy Flight School.<br />

seaplane titled “Mahmut<br />

Şevket Pasha from<br />

the Yeşilköy Flight<br />

School was also assigned to Çanakkale. It could not, however, serve <strong>for</strong> a long time,<br />

since it overturned on October 26, 1914. Its pilot, First Lieutenant Savmi (Uçan) and<br />

air observer survived. Bleriot aircraft named “Ertuğrul” was posted to Çanakkale in<br />

January 1915. This aircraft was the first army aircraft assigned to the area and generally<br />

flown by First Lieutenant Mehmet Cemal (Durusoy). Ertuğrul had already con-

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