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Originally Posted by acer
RAGIII-
Oberleutnant Robert Greim (not "von" during wartime) did not search in an archive for a photograph of his newly acquired aircraft from Jasta 11, together with two other ones. He just took a photograph along with for his album.
When the last two photographs of this aircraft were taken, Greim was in hospital. But the aircraft was in a much more handicaped situation than his owner.
acer
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sorry acer, I did not realize that unlike other ex JG1 Triplanes which went to AFPs and were then distributed, that Jasta 34b pilots picked up their aircraft directly from JG1/ Jasta 11. I figured the picture was picked up
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von Greim not on his visit to Jasta 11 to acquire this bird. I am obviously wrong in my assumption that since these were official Army photos they would have been used for publicity or whatever and archived. I had no idea that they were retained by the individual Jasta. I guess that the photo was duly captioned by Jasta 11 as 521/17 so that there was no identification needed by Robert Greim at the time he collected the aircraft and photos.This has made things really convenient for us all of these years later,
RAGIII