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Imperial German Air Power: Part II Imperial German air power can be described as nonexistent in the period before 1914. Though Prussia and Saxony developed air wings prior to 1914 almost the whole of German military finances and strategy went into the infantry and the navy budgets. Though the production and use of dirigibles and zeppelins for observation purposes was seen as generally more useful in the event of a large conflict with France or Russia . [1] Anthony Fokker in his plane When the Great War began infantry, cavalry, and artillery were called upon to wage war and thus received the most attention from military strategists, as they always had before even though Germany and the Entente powers had already met in bloody stalemate on both fronts in 1915. The first units to see service in support of the German Army Corps were the Fliegertruppe , two seat reconnaissance planes that were tasked with monitoring troop deployments and enemy positions. Many of early trainees were from ...