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Old 28 May 2002, 05:59 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Can anyone ID this MFJ pilot? *Nice SSW -- anyone have details on this individual aircraft? *This photo may be well-known, but it was new to me.

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Old 28 May 2002, 07:00 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Can anyone ID this MFJ pilot? Nice SSW -- anyone have details on this individual aircraft? This photo may be well-known, but it was new to me.

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Old 28 May 2002, 07:10 PM   #3 (permalink)
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BTW, what's MFJ?
MFJ = Marine Feld-Jasta.

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Old 28 May 2002, 07:37 PM   #4 (permalink)
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plz correct me if im wrong and i know i am but it looks like a Ansaldo series i beleive, but to me thats what it looks like.

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Old 29 May 2002, 12:03 AM   #5 (permalink)
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plz correct me if im wrong and i know i am but it looks like a Ansaldo series i beleive, but to me thats what it looks like.

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You are hereby corrected, as requested. It's an SSW DIV,and looks nothing at all like an Ansaldo.

Portrait photos of Marine pilots are very scarce, and this might be any one of a half dozen aces, or dozens of non-ace pilots. Among the aces with known photos it looks most like Hans Goerth, to me, but could be just about anybody except Gerhard "Kuchen" Hubrich, who had a much rounder face.
 
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Definitely SSW DIV indeed. Picture taken in 1918 at Snellegem airfield. Possibly Vizeflugmeister Mayer who served with MFJ I, II and III - however without certitude !

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Old 29 May 2002, 04:57 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Greetings all,

The mystery flyer with the Siemens-Schuckert D.IV is actually Ltn.z.S. Franz of 2 MFJ. *Regulus, you are probably right that the photo was taken at Snellegem. A few months ago I had asked about SSWs in MFJ service in the modeling area; there's some color information from Volker that might be of interest.
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Old 29 May 2002, 07:53 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Hi

a small addition, Max Frantz was actually Lt dR MA and not Lt zS...

However I dont have the date he left See 2 for joining MFJ II, does anyone have it...?


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Old 21 September 2002, 08:37 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Hi

I meanwhile found a note that Max Frantz actually left See 2 on 18 Sep 1918 for joining MFJ I...

However the question still remain....did he actually joined MFJ II and when..?

MFJ = Marine Feldjagdstaffel
See II = Seeflugstation Flandern II(Ostende)

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