[PeterL]

It's my impression that enemy aircraft were routinely misidentified by allied airmen during the war. In French reports if it's a two seater it's an Aviatik well into 1917 when, we can assume, there weren't many of the breed around. And depending on which was in the ascendance at the time monoplanes were either "Taubes" or "Fokkers" and large twins "Gothas". I would suppose also that at least some "vee-strutters" must have been Pfalz.