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Hal Oele · 22 May 2009, 02:02 AM

Hi folks,

working with JJ´s diary, MT find more and more shady entrys...
One of the most significant (described below) is a proof that this diary wasn´t written in the WW1 period.
The only explanation is that JJ wrote it in the late 1930s, based on earlyer
notations and his barograms. But sometimes his memory fade...

yours
Hal

Hi, van der Laan,

it's realy dangerous with a further shovel coal for more steam, some people here are nearly to explode
when they have to learn that her Jasta 7 Pilot Lt. Otto Kunst disappeared into nirvana...
(naive, as I am, I expected someone would say "thank you" for Lt.d.R. Friedrich Karl Knust).
Okay, I get duck and cover, here´s a shovel of coal...

Published by Stephen Lawson (archivist of the LaFayette foundation) from the handwritten diary of Ltn.d.R.

Josef Jacobs:

"30 October 1917: Today at 9.30am a front flight in low-hanging clouds. Landed at 9.55am.
From 31 October until 5 November 1917 I was in Germany on leave type-testing!"

But during the given date there was no type-testing in Germany.
It was one year later in 1918!
We all know the photos of an amused Jacobs and his friends, proud of their Pour-le-Merite,
knowing war was over and they are still alive, and we know the party of the Pfalz brothers,
with the nude dancer Lucie Kieselhausen...

This alpha pilot Josef Jacobs should have forgotten this event and placed it in 1917 in his handwritten diary?

Manfred Thiemeyer

22 May 2009, 02:02 AM	#114 (permalink)
Hal Oele Two-seater Pilot Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 263	More steam... Hi folks, working with JJ´s diary, MT find more and more shady entrys... One of the most significant (described below) is a proof that this diary wasn´t written in the WW1 period. The only explanation is that JJ wrote it in the late 1930s, based on earlyer notations and his barograms. But sometimes his memory fade... yours Hal Hi, van der Laan, it's realy dangerous with a further shovel coal for more steam, some people here are nearly to explode when they have to learn that her Jasta 7 Pilot Lt. Otto Kunst disappeared into nirvana... (naive, as I am, I expected someone would say "thank you" for Lt.d.R. Friedrich Karl Knust). Okay, I get duck and cover, here´s a shovel of coal... Published by Stephen Lawson (archivist of the LaFayette foundation) from the handwritten diary of Ltn.d.R. Josef Jacobs: "30 October 1917: Today at 9.30am a front flight in low-hanging clouds. Landed at 9.55am. From 31 October until 5 November 1917 I was in Germany on leave type-testing!" But during the given date there was no type-testing in Germany. It was one year later in 1918! We all know the photos of an amused Jacobs and his friends, proud of their Pour-le-Merite, knowing war was over and they are still alive, and we know the party of the Pfalz brothers, with the nude dancer Lucie Kieselhausen... This alpha pilot Josef Jacobs should have forgotten this event and placed it in 1917 in his handwritten diary? Manfred Thiemeyer Last edited by Hal Oele; 22 May 2009 at 02:16 AM.