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Old 4 June 2006, 07:05 PM   #32 (permalink)
Dan_San_Abbott
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MvR's Halb.D.III 129/16

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Peter Grosz has a mountainof data on German aircraft and pilots. I don't know how he tied that Halb.D. in the photo to MvR and Halb.D.III 129/16.
It could be MvR's Halberstadt. But then again.....
One of the problems that trouble us, is the identification of pilot's machines. As far as I know, there is no photographs of the Halb.D II, D.III or D.V machines of Jasta 11. There is no data about markings, Jasta or personal.
What is known he painted his Alb.D.III "glaring red" while everyone else flew Hab.D.types. We don't know for certain, that he got "le petit rouge" back after he cracked the wing. I would think so, but..
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