Wow! That makes it an even more interesting work! Great effort, Great stuff!

PILOT NOTEBOOK
Constantin Harms

Jasta 2, Lagnicourt, 23. November 1916

07:45 h Morning Patrol Croisilles-Bapaume-Combles
Weather: Cold, huge grey clouds, snow drizzle, light wind

We would have like to meet No. 24, and we were in their area, but we saw nothing.
Below 3000 Meter the vision was so poor that I could hardly see the third plane
left or right of me; and above 3000 m we had left the drizzle, but we couldn't
find a single enemy aircraft. Now, the Nieuports are perfectly camouflaged with
their light grey painting - so maybe three dozens of them have passed us unseen.
Now I'm sitting by my iron oven, trying to get warm again.

Olham, that is some nice lighting playing off the wings and the clouds.

Always touching again, isn't it?

For realZ!!! WOFF Aris clouds and Ankhor lighting is IMO the best looking flight sim to date.And to think we have more coming!!

PILOT NOTEBOOK
Constantin Harms

Jasta 2, Lagnicourt, 23. November 1916

13:20 h Midday Patrol over Bapaume
Weather: like morning

This time our leader, Hans Imelmann, sighted 3 Farman Experimental NE of Bapaume.
They were heading west to fly back over the lines. We engaged, and Imelmann shot
one craft down in the first run. I needed two runs, but then my "F.E." went down
in flames and crashed at the southwestern edge of Bapaume.
Flying away from them, I received a graze shot at the back of my head.
It was a shock, and it made me dizzy, and so I headed back towards Lagnicourt.
Still dizzy, I almost ran into the church tower at Vaux-Vraucourt!
Our medic said it wasn't even bleeding, and the skull seemed intact.
Still though, they insisted in driving me to the Armeehospital at Cambrai.
Well, nothing fractured; just a concussion - five days rest!
Damn - just when I wanted to pay it back to No. 24 Squadron!

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21:00 h
At 15 h another patrol of ours has finally met 3 DeHavillands from No. 24 near
Bapaume. Von Richthofen shot down the leader, who crashed just south of Bapaume.
Our Staff car brought Manfred to the crash site, where a German Hauptmann showed
him the papers of the fallen pilot - he was the British ace and Squadron leader
Major Lanoe Hawker. Von Richthofen made sure that Major Hawker was buried orderly
and that he received a cross with his name on. It stands 200 meters east of the
"Louisenhof".
Von Richthofen let the mechanics unmount Hawker's machine gun, and he cut the
serial number off the wreckage and brought it all back to his "trophy room".

I heard when Erwin Böhme said to Manfred, that he had had his revenge now.
Von Richthofen answered: "This is not about revenge. I am fighting a war.
This British Major delivered me the hardest fight I have ever had yet.
But I had the advantage, with the Albatros - and with the west wind.
For him, the time was running out; his petrol, and his way home.
I brought the trophies to encourage everyone. To show: we can beat them!"

At the dinner table everyone wanted to hear the story of the fight.
Von Richthofen did not bragg about it in any kind. He described the whole event
very well, and I felt he wanted to teach us some lesson about combat flying.
I got the impression that this man might go far.

This weather has been tough to fly in, great report Olham. I really like the history lesson too.
Heal up quick with your days off.

Bachmeier is doing well, but having difficulty with the weather too. The Kommandant needs to rethink his late afternoon missions, he is sending us up too late in the day, or early in the night. maybe if the weather clears up there would be some daylight?

It's dark all day, it seemed to me. Glad I have 5 days off! Good luck with icebergs!

The continuing service of Albert "Mushroom" Ward:



23 Nov 1916 @ 07h58 Bombing enemy front lines North of Ypres

I lead the flight with Travers accompanying. We escorted a strutter from “A” flight flown by Ada with Aldridge as observer. We had 8 kn winds from the SW with scattered low clouds, at 3000 ft followed by heavy mist and more cumulous up to 7000ft. and rain throughout the flight. It was cold and miserable and but for a small thermos of hot tea that kept me alert and going. The flight to the lines was quiet other than seeing 5 of our own crossing from our starboard to port and well ahead of us. Approaching the lines we were 1000 ft higher and behind our strutter when I noticed him veer off to starboard. That was not in the plan so I searched carefully and noted three specks on the horizon at 11 O’clock low coming across the lines. We stayed with our strutter and I continued to observe the specs which appeared to circle back across their lines. Our strutter continued south west and when we reached Bailleul Asylum he went into a circling pattern to land. I turned about and headed back to the lines again to check things out, but as we reached our destination, nothing was happening below so I set a course back to our base at St-Pol-Sur-Mer wondering why our strutter called a washout. Arriving back at base safely we put our report in with the adjutant who indicated that he received a call from Bailleul indicating the strutter had landed there with engine problems.

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Nice report Olham especially the historical pics.

Thank you, Robert - I see you are suffering your ways through the same nasty snow drizzle.
That makes us "brothers in suffering" somehow. Argh, the cold!...

You know, I failed to mention that the weather in my city "Lindsay" has been about the same as in the sim!!!
I can't get away from it either way!!

Well, I guess you may have coffee and a good whisky in the house?

A. Snopdgrass
Cpt, VC
70 Sgn, Rfc.


11/23/16.

No flight today but did get some in theater mail from a Captainee Rene Trayville of the 16th Division. Seems one of my kills came down inside their trench line. Going thru the wreck, his Battalion found some pics on the pilot so sent them along as a memento. Before putting him in the ground. What a world we live in.

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Well-ll - you know that they cannot have found the last picture in 1916 - and why?
Still, a nice photo from a DFW C.V !

I have both here and I will have a toast to your health!

This week starts out good....

Decided to try my luck doing a correct Recce as discussed in another thread. Went well actually.
We had to follow the Berry-an-Bac/Corbeny road and write down anything we saw..and then bung the bombs on someone.

Nice photos Carrick, and good work lederhosen.

Uneventful patrols for Bertie yesterday and today. Good for the nerves I suppose. Today's flight turned into a squadron show when A flight flew close to us the entire time.



Word of Major Hawker's death came through this afternoon. It's all gone a bit sullen in the mess. There is a sense of foreboding.

wow, now thats an offensive patrol !!!


did my second mission...next time I'll look at the clock.

Thank you, Robert, enjoy it - I'll stay with coffee; cheers!