We sometimes forget with all the DR1 talk and postings regarding fighter pilots that they spent far more time flying other aircraft than the DR1. In my quest to find the 2nd “devil” image I sometimes have to force myself to stop and smell the roses by collecting non DR1 stuff related to old JJ. I’d seen this photo in O’Conner’s book but never really appreciated it until I ran across an original. One is always impressed by the clairty of those little LICA cameras way back then.
This is the early 80 HP Eindecker E III 608/15 that JJ bitched and moaned about so often in his diaries and official reports but it was also the machine he made his first confirmed kill on May 12 1916.
This is his Ehrenbecher goblet won as the result and now held in Denver