When Snoopy takes to the skies in his doghouse/Sopwith Camel, who does he do battle against?
Sopwith Camel variant had a second cockpit behind the normal pilot's position. The weapons were removed, although the hump was sometimes kept. There are only eight known original Sopwith Camels left: Biggles flies a Sopwith Camel in the novels by W. E. Johns during Biggles's spell in 266 Squadron during the First World War. The first collection of Biggles stories, titled "The Camels are Coming", was published in 1932. The Camel is the "plane" of Snoopy in the "Peanuts" comic strip, when he imagines himself as a World War I flying ace and the nemesis of the Red Baron. Sopwith Camel The
Sopwith Camel instead was increasingly used in that capacity. The Camel inflicted high losses on German ground forces, albeit suffering from a high rate of losses itself in turn, through the dropping of 25 lb (11 kg) Cooper bombs and low-level strafing runs. The protracted development of the Camel's replacement, the Sopwith Snipe, resulted in the Camel remaining in service in this capacity until well after the signing of the Armistice. During the German Spring Offensive of March 1918, squadrons of Camels participated in the defence of the Allied lines, harassing the advancing German Army from the skies. Jackson observed that "some