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Old 14 November 1999, 03:14 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I have reasons to suspect that the Boelcke crash photo isn't actually of Boelcke's crash but is of someone else. I have both "Knight of Germany" and "An Aviator's Fieldbook". In the later, there is a photo of Boelcke suited up prior to his last flight (in obvious winter gear). In the "Illustrated Red Baron" photo, he is laying on the ground in front of the plane wearing what appears to be warm weather gear. Also, in the "Knight of Germany", Erwin Boehme was quoted as saying that if he had been belted in tighter he would have survived the 'not so bad crash'. In this photo there's no plane left, it looks disintegrated!?!?

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Old 15 November 1999, 07:03 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Does the photo show what appears to be an elevator being held upright in the foreground? There is a photographed which has apparently been miscaptioned frequently according to Windsock Data files as "Boelcke's Albatros" but which is in fact a crash photo of a Hannover CL III.
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Old 16 November 1999, 04:25 AM   #3 (permalink)
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The photo in mention shows "Boelcke" lying dead in front of the wreckage of "his" plane. I don't think it's actually him though. The gear is all wrong for that time of year, as there is a photo of him suited up right before that flight...in winter gear.
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