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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
AIRCRAFTS
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Page 6
Many thanks to Kees Kort for
his clarifications and comments.
Kees Kort comments
Famous picture of the French Deperdussin Type Mitrailleur dating from February 1914.
The Deperdussin produced this experimental machine
to test the use of a MG in a tractor monoplane
(that is a machine with the propeller in front).
As interruptor gear came somewhat later in the war this was a viable solution for a tractor machine.
Probably two were built, but they were never made it to operational use, being axed already before the war started.
In war propaganda this configuration can be seen in drawings where a type like this shots down a German Taube in flames.
As propaganda goes, it never happened.
Airship with machine gun
Am Press Assoc
Source of Photograph: World War I in Ohio Collection
at the Ohio Memory of the Ohio History organization
Kees Kort comments
Maurice Farman MF.7 trainers.
These were early French pusher biplanes mostly used during the beginning of the war as trainers.
Very sturdy and stable machines, with the elevator mounted in front on a complex tube system.
Seems to be a French field given the hangars that can be seen in the background.
In the far background can be seen a row of monoplanes, but the picture quality is not sufficient to pinpoint the type of types.
Airplanes and hangers
Am. Press Assoc
Source of Photograph: World War I in Ohio Collection
at the Ohio Memory of the Ohio History organization
94th Aero Squadron [Ohio] Spad
Source of Photograph: World War I in Ohio Collection
at the Ohio Memory of the Ohio History organization
Trophy of 1st Pursuit Group;
Shot down by Capt. E.V. Rickenbacker & Reed Chambers 94th Aero Squadron
Oct. 2, 1918.
APA
Source of Photograph: World War I in Ohio Collection
at the Ohio Memory of the Ohio History organization
German plane shot down by flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker of the 94th Aero Squadron
Source of Photograph: World War I in Ohio Collection
at the Ohio Memory of the Ohio History organization
Ad for Curtiss Flight School in Hammondsport
1913 -1917
German fighter at aerodrome in Huj Palestine
1917
Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai
Larsson, Lewis (Photographer)
American and Italian commanders of one of the aviation schools, Italy undated
NARA111-SC-18057-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
American and Italian students at the aviation school at the beach, Italy
undated
NARA RG111
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Wrecked "GOTHA"
Photograph shows Allied forces servicemen inspecting a crashed German Gotha bomber
during World War I.
Source: researcher, M. Higgins, 2018
1917 or 1918
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Fléville devant Nancy
German albatross D. 111, with mitrailleuse brought down by one of the aviators
at Fleville, near Nancy
27 March 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Coblenz
Kees Kort comments
A severe crash of this late production L.F.G. Roland D.VI, but due to the construction of the fuselage it still holds together.
These machines had a unique fuselage construction known in German as 'Klinkerrumpf'.
More information can be found in this text produced by the Cracow Museum (Poland) which holds the only original fuselage of this type.
German albatross D. 111, with mitrailleuse brought down by one of the aviators
at Fleville, near Nancy
27 March 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
ADJ. Donhauser crashes Roland D.6.b plane,
Coblenz, Rhenish, Prussia
1-2-19 NARA111-SC-49488
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
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Kees Kort comments
Looking at this archive material there are several inaccuracies in the spelling of the names.
Obviously it is Quentin Roosevelt (not Rosevelt).
It is Donhauser (not Denhauser), or in full Hans Christian Friedrich Donhauser.
The queer fact is that he crashed fatally at Koblenz on 13 January 1919.
This surely is quite contrary to the text here which quotes the accident with this L.F.G. Roland D.VI as taking place on 1/2/1919 (at least the picture was then taken) with only light injuries to Donhauser.
Coblenz was the writing of the town till 1926 when the writing changed to Koblenz
There is little that can be trusted in historic matters.
So I checked the date of death [13 January 1919] of Donhauser found at the Aerodrome
www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/donhauser.php
in another way.
I found a large German site about WW1 which holds a picture of the gravestone of Donhauser.
And lo, it is a quite different data
www.frontflieger.de/3-d-f.html
Search down to Donhauser and you find the date of death as 14.08.1919 [14 August 1919]
which is verified by the admittedly rather faint dates on the gravestone.
He crashed fatally as a Leutnant of the Reichswehr.
So the dating of the accident with the L.F.G. Roland D.VI (not D.6) after all is correct, or to e more exact Donhauser was then still alive.
Vedrines wins Fres... Laurels.
Aviator brings down two German aeroplanes in three days
Jules Védrines seated in airplane.
between 1914 and 1918
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Eight German Soldiers Examining the Wreckage of an Airplane and a Deceased Pilot, World War I [German Post Card]
Source of Photograph: World War, 1914-1918 Collection, Missouri Historical Society.
German military biplane Albatros C.V with crew
1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Horrible fate of two heroic British airmen.
October 1917
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)