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French pilot Adolphe Pégoud became the struggle’s first ace, taking pictures down six German planes in 1915. In January of 1915 French pilot Roland Garros invented the primary deflector to allow machine guns to shoot between propeller blades. After a aircraft outfitted with one of many deflectors was captured by the Germans in 1915, Garros’s invention was perfected by Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker, who was working for the German military Technology news. According to Thomas R. Funderburk, Fokker’s extra subtle synchronizer began what the British referred to as the “Fokker Scourge,” a German strategy to prey on unarmed or single Allied planes flying reconnaissance missions.