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Quite some time ago this was posted, but maybe some missed it back then. This film was made by Anthony Fokker during a visit at the front. We can see several aces from Jasta 11 - like Eberhard Möhnicke - and also Otto Kissenberth, Adolf Ritter von Tutschek and others. Seeing this document almost gives me goose skin - they appear so lively, so young - close somehow. http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/fv3353

Mmuahahahahaaa!!! Only just realised: the tank is an early bomb shape! Craaa - zeee!!!

Yes, it must have been a nasty flu. We may be in for another terrible wave sooner rather than later - people consume so much antibiotics, that bacteria and viruses develop more and more immunity against them.

THE "SPANISH FLU" (1918 - 1920)" The bitter irony is that 25 - 50 million of European people got killed by the "Spanish Flu" between 1918 and 1920, (which might have balanced the food supply for the others). WW1 cost ca. 10 million lives among the soldiers, plus ca. 7 million casualties among the civilians. The flu may well have charged the double number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

The photos from the "GHOSTS" calendar by Makana also seem to show the observer unbelted. https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&hl=de&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=955&q=FE.2b+observer&oq=FE.2b+observer&gs_l=img.3...2367.10731.0.10939.14.4.0.10.0.0.129.374.3j1.4.0....0...1ac.1.58.img..11.3.302.MmgLsmxc0Ns#facrc=_&imgdii=MfCVxlcNyYE7uM%3A%3Bw63LLlHhRSkdSM%3BMfCVxlcNyYE7uM%3A&imgrc=MfCVxlcNyYE7uM%253A%3B3B7DCXQJeLMSrM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fthevintageaviator.co.nz%252Ffiles%252Fimages%252Ffe-2b%252Fscreensize%252Ffe2b-8709-airmen.screensize.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Friseofflight.com%252Fforum%252Fviewtopic.php%253Ff%253D49%2526t%253D24441%2526start%253D10%3B1200%3B799 Otto Fuchs described how he saw an observer falling from his aircraft in a wild manoeuver, completely with the machine gun he still clung to. But I don't remember which craft it was. Here is a photo from Makana's shots. I like how we can see the smoke spiralling around the Fokker from the prop wind.

The beginning of a sentence is always with a capital letter, like in English. "Von" would be correct there.

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You'll find a psalm for EVERY occasion when you search the bible long enough - even for killing each other. You see, I'm not a religious man, but it is touching to see the devotion of the stone carver.

Yes, sure, he was badly wounded. I had that several times in RoF. But you could still try to land the craft, BEFORE you faint.

Fighting in the Albatros D.V or D.Va in RoF is not easy online, vs human flyers. The Alb is outdated and even undermodelled - the top speed is at least 10 km/h too slow, and it breaks to easily. Your only chance against a good Camel jockey is: hit him first - and hard. When you are shot up like this feller, you should find a landing area and then shut of the engine. The oil spraying will stop and give you better vision. He could have managed to land the craft, but he spoiled it IMHO.

That must have been the right adventure for a kid! Wow, what a location to sneak in to. I hope these Yuppies will not change any of the wall inscriptions and art works done by soldiers. Cause then it could perhaps one day be changed back into a memorial site.

Touching, and a bit spooky. Saw it on German TV too. There were some real good art works down there, which still existed.

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Great diagram you found there, Hauksbee - that illustrates it all nicely.

Only recently I heard or read a funny side-story about the Emden. The natives on some Polynesian island(s) have the name "Emden" implemented into their language. It stand for an action or operation that went perfectly well. They would then say: "That went emden!" (in their own language of course). The reason for that: they saw the "Emden" leaving the anchor place, to engage a (British ?) ship. She returned not long after that, having sunk the enemy vessel. "Emden" by the way is the name of one of the biggest German harbour towns by the North Sea.

Holy Schnicky (as Lou would say) - in Germany it wouldn't be allowed! Our insurance companies are kind of almighty.

Don't think so - it looks too equally IMHO. In German WIKI it doesn't read "...sealed the engine with grease", but "...sealed the most important parts/spots with grease." It looks so regularly equal, that I'd say it is human-made. Might as well be they had added new primer around rivets, and what we see is the state before painting the whole ship again?

Haha, yeah, that must be true, Hauksbee! Geeze, the next thing would be a motorbike with the tracks of a Sherman! Or with the jet engines of an F-16 fighter...

Craaa-zeee!!! I had always thought nothing is bigger than a Münch Mammut (which had a car engine). But in America everything is possible.

Well, you wrote that the Goetzen was greased and then deliberately sunken. Maybe they had to grease more than just the engines? Another explanation would be small sweetwater mussles, which settled at the edges around rivets. It is too regularly to be bullet holes or anything IMHO.

They are placed in horizontal and vertical order - maybe they were fat-sealed rivets? The photo could have been made before the scuttling?

The house is the farm (ferme) - it must have been there in the war already. The crash site was 250 meters east of the farm.