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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Fünfzehn Albatrosse alle in einer Reihe
Groovy mix of markings in this lineup of Jasta 5 Albatros D.IIIs and Vs at Boistrancourt, July 1917...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Stark Reality
Alrighty... according to the info that accompanied it, Leutnant Rudolf Stark of Jasta 34b is shown in this photo... although we have not been able to determine which fella is Stark. If your blogmeister had to make a choice, he'd go with the guy on the left in the foreground, based on the few photos of the man we've found online.
Anyhoo, the bird looks to be a Pfalz, perhaps a D.III? Dunno... just guessing. The photo itself is somewhat poor quality, even with a bit of tweaking in Photoshop... but what it lacks in that department it makes up for with atmosphere and sheer grooviness.
Another poor quality image... this one shows Stark with a Fokker Dr.1 which, according to info found HERE, apparently had been transferred to Jasta 34b from Jasta 11. Also, there's a smaller but better quality image of this same photo on that page.
Here's an anecdote from Stark that we came across HERE, concerning Jasta 34b's accommodations at Foucaucourt Aerodrome during 1918...
"Some of us have dogs, one owns a cat, another has brought three magpies along, while yet another has caught a fox-cub. All this menagerie has to be parked in the one hut, over and under the beds, thus curtailing the space available for humans. Unfortunately all the dogs are at war with one another in addition to cherishing the most evil intentions towards the cat. The latter lies in ambush for the magpies, with the result that we often arrive home in the middle of a scrap and just in time to prevent a tragedy. The fox-cub is the only one that sits good and quiet in his corner, but he gets so bored that he goes and grabs everyone's boots in turn and gnaws them. Owing to the presence of the aforesaid menagerie the air in our hut is not exactly what one would call pure ozone."
Krieg ist die Hölle.
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Anyhoo, the bird looks to be a Pfalz, perhaps a D.III? Dunno... just guessing. The photo itself is somewhat poor quality, even with a bit of tweaking in Photoshop... but what it lacks in that department it makes up for with atmosphere and sheer grooviness.
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Another poor quality image... this one shows Stark with a Fokker Dr.1 which, according to info found HERE, apparently had been transferred to Jasta 34b from Jasta 11. Also, there's a smaller but better quality image of this same photo on that page.
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Here's an anecdote from Stark that we came across HERE, concerning Jasta 34b's accommodations at Foucaucourt Aerodrome during 1918...
"Some of us have dogs, one owns a cat, another has brought three magpies along, while yet another has caught a fox-cub. All this menagerie has to be parked in the one hut, over and under the beds, thus curtailing the space available for humans. Unfortunately all the dogs are at war with one another in addition to cherishing the most evil intentions towards the cat. The latter lies in ambush for the magpies, with the result that we often arrive home in the middle of a scrap and just in time to prevent a tragedy. The fox-cub is the only one that sits good and quiet in his corner, but he gets so bored that he goes and grabs everyone's boots in turn and gnaws them. Owing to the presence of the aforesaid menagerie the air in our hut is not exactly what one would call pure ozone."
Krieg ist die Hölle.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Sissonne Flugfeld
This photo of a DFW C.V was apparently taken at Sissonne Airfield.
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
Albatros
As your blogmeister has confessed in the past, he really digs the birds of WWI but doesn't know all that much about them, compared to other things with wings. As such, we can provide you with little in the way of concrete info concerning this photo.
But here's what we see, or... what we think we see: the main subject is an Albatros D.-Sumthin' which has what appears to be (mostly) over-painted stripes on the rear fuselage and tail. Also, it appears that an older style fuselage cross may have been over-painted and replaced with a later style cross. Finally, call us crazy... but is that a roundel on the wing of this crate's neighbor? If so, this suggests the possibility that one of these is a captured machine.
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But here's what we see, or... what we think we see: the main subject is an Albatros D.-Sumthin' which has what appears to be (mostly) over-painted stripes on the rear fuselage and tail. Also, it appears that an older style fuselage cross may have been over-painted and replaced with a later style cross. Finally, call us crazy... but is that a roundel on the wing of this crate's neighbor? If so, this suggests the possibility that one of these is a captured machine.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Wild Paintjob
Not sure what kinda design it is that's covering the whole forward fuselage of this Halberstadt CL.II... a shooting star, perhaps? Whatever it is, it's kinda wild...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
New Tail Feathers?
We missed a few days this past week, so here's an extra post for today. According to the info which came along with the photo, this is an Albatros D.III with a D.V rudder... don't ask me if it's true or not, I just post the photos 'cuz I think they're groovy.
An interesting thing about this Albatros, though... it carries a skull and crossbones motif very similar to the crate shown in our last post... hmmmm... makes you wonder...
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An interesting thing about this Albatros, though... it carries a skull and crossbones motif very similar to the crate shown in our last post... hmmmm... makes you wonder...
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