Winged Sabres - About the Death of a WW1 airman

[Olham]

An interesting, almost intimate site:

 

http://www.winged-sa...om/gallery.html

Edited August 4, 2011 by Olham

[UK_Widowmaker]

Brings it home

[Hasse Wind]

Reading through official histories and such, it's so easy to forget there were real living people involved in the conflict. This site reminds us of that.

 

A tragic story, one of millions.

[Javito1986]

Thanks for sharing. RIP

[Herr Prop-Wasche]

There's more to that interesting site, including a history of the 20th Recon/Bomber squadron. Here's an excerpt:

 

Imagine then some of the following scenarios: an observer clambering out of the windswept front cockpit of a F.E.2D, thousands of feet above France, to stand on the wing and reach into the pilot's cockpit to tie a tourniquet around his dying pilot's leg - and this with no parachute or safety harness! Or another observer, whose pilot had been killed, standing on the wing and reaching into the pilot's cockpit to bring the aircraft down to land: only to be thrown from the wing as the wheels touched down - and die from a broken neck.

 

Sort of sums up the whole enterprise of war, doesn't it?

[Olham]

Indeed!

[Von Paulus]

Thanks for sharing.

Edited August 6, 2011 by Von Paulus