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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
AIRCRAFTS
GERMAN
page 1
Many thanks to Kees Kort for
his clarifications and comments.
Tellancourt
Kees Kort comment
The identification J.I c
an be seen painted
on the fuselage side of
the second and
third machine in the row.
The Junkers factory identified this type
as the Junkers J.4
(factory identification).
The third machine in the row has some camouflage.
The Bestellnummer can be rated almost as surely this is J 596 / ?
Tellancourt
Junker J.I turned over to allies near Tellancourt, France 11-19-18
NARA111-SC-42201-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Junker J.I turned over to allies near Tellancourt, France 11-19-18 2nd view
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Kees Kort comment
The A.E.G. G.IV was
a twin-engined biplane bomber, but this rare picture shows a version with a longer wing (count the struts on each wing side there are three pairs of them, technically called a three-bay wing).
Also different is the box rudder, which means two rudders and two elevators
in the form of a box.
Power was by two Basse & Selve BuS.IVa engines rated at 300 hp each.
All this effort was done to carry a 1000 kg bomb !
Tellancourt
German bombing plane turned over to allies, near Tellancourt, France 11-19-18
NARA111-SC-42200-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
This version was identified as the A.E.G. G.IVb-lang (where 'lang' described the longer fuselage).
On the fuselage of this machine the Balkenkreuz (beam cross) is painted in its last form, which was issued on 25 June 1918
and used till the end of the war.
So this is a very, very late time in the war.
It would be interesting to know if there is a report made up by US engineers as the photographers obviously
have detected this rare machine of which very little photographs seem to exist.
Paris
Prize of war on display Invalides, Paris [Rumpler C-1] ca1918
NARA111-SC-005779-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG:111; American Military Activities
Kees Kort Comments
Albatros D.III single seat fighters.
On the rudder is the Bestellnummer
(order number) which is
D 636/17, where D signifies fighter, '636' is the time 636th ordered fighter airframe in 1917
(the last part /17).
This was a machine from the second order of 50 machines
(D 600/17 - D 649/17).
The other ia D 2174/16, a machine from the first order of 400 machines with Bestellnummer D 1910/16 - D 2309/16.
German aircraft D.636/17 and D.2174/16 at Huj, Gaza ca1917
Lewis Larsson, Am Colony – LOC
Source of Photograph: Library of Congress
An A.E.G. C.IV, a two-seat reconnaissance biplane.
Mark the characteristic camouflage as used by
the Germans.
German airplane at aerodrome at Huj, Gaza [9 mi. NE of Gaza City] ca 1916
Lewis Larsson, Am. Colony – LOC
Source of Photograph: Library of Congress
Montfaucon
Cierges
German Hannover C.L. IIIA.3892/18 brought down between Montfaucon and Cierges, France 10-4-18 NARA111-SC-26544-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
The Americans seem to have righted the crashed German plane in the previous picture.
Here is the information on the original photo card:
“German Hannover two seated plane brought down by
1Lt. Reid M. Chambers and 1Lt. Eddie M. Rickenbacker of 94th Aero Squadron, killing the observer and wounding the pilot.
Near
Rembercourt-aux-Pots, Meuse, France.”
Taken October 11, 1918
by Pvt. R. C. Price, S. C.
Rembercourt - Sommaisne
Hanover plane CL.IIIA
brought down by 1Lt.s Chambers & Rickenbacker [94th Aero Sqd] killing obs. & wounding pilot Rembercourt-aux-Pots 10-11-18
NARA111-SC-27149-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
German fighter at aerodrome in Huj Palestine 1917
Source:: Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai
Contributor Names:
Larsson, Lewis (Photographer)
American Colony Photo Department (Creator)
Pasha, Jamal, 1872-1922 (Associated name)
Created / Published ca. 1914-1917