[StephenLawson]

Originally Posted by Hal Oele

". . .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


". . . 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

There are no entries in the diary after late Sept. 1918. Nowhere in the diary does it say anything about him going to type testing in Oct. -Nov any year. I concure sir you are misrepresenting and creating mendacities. If Mr. Oele is in fact a second person he is guilty by association by posting this lie for MT.