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#4620212 - 02/07/23 12:15 PM Re: DEAD IS NOT DEAD [Re: jerbear]  
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Looking behind me I see the Lord rear up in surprise, turning left and right to try to find me. With his wings wobbling he gives his clumsy beast full throttle toward his own territory.

The others don’t seem to have even noticed me so I pick another victim, use the same tactics and send him back to mommy as well.

The others have caught on to my game now. One, either the bravest or the most foolish, tries to claw his way up to me. This is hopeless from his starting position with no momentum.



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I dive once more and streak around behind him, biting hard. He’s had enough and turns for home.




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Rather than finishing him off I zoom back up to Keller’s altitude and signal him to attack the escaping English Rabbit.


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He eagerly dives on the Englishman and gets on his tail. I dive also and put a burst into his quarter and together we set him on fire. I send an extra burst into the fuselage and cockpit just in case he’s still alive.




When Sigi attaches himself to my left again he gestures excitedly. He’s tasted his first blood.





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I feel we might still have just enough fuel to reach Harlebeke. We follow the road from the pile of rubble that used to be Moorslede to Bolleghencappelle. This puts us near Iseghem and Heule but I still feel we will make it in without having to land.

Finally, starved of fuel, Beomia begins to cough as we approach the Lys so I glide into Cuerne (Kuerne) aerodrome, Keller following.


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This is the home of one of our sister Staffeln in the Jagdgruppe, Jagdstaffel 36, the Blue Noses.*

* WOFF has Jasta 36 at Cuerne at this time. Other sources say that they should be operating out of Bavichove. This aerodrome is not featured in the Sim so this is probably the reason for their presence at Cuerne.

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I’m unable to taxi out of the landing field so a team of Schwarzer Mann come out and I help them push Beomia to the Jasta 36 Hangars. Only these are blaue Männer. These men are from Schusta 25b, a Bavarian protection Staffel, now being used for ground attack duties. Evidently, in the Bavarian service, the mechanics wear blue instead of black.

A flight from their Staffel is just coming in and I thank them as they rush back over to their part of the field.


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Sigi had enough fuel left to cough his way up to the hangars. He jumps out of his cockpit and comes running up to me. “Congratulations on your Engländer Felix, thank you for letting me help!”

“Not my Engländer.

I only softened him up. You shot him down.”

“No…not at all…you bounced him. He was almost finished when I got to him.”

“We don’t have dice, but if it will make you feel better we can flip a coin for the Luftsieg.

“If you wish, certainly.”

I fish in my pocket for an old silver coin I always carry. Not for luck but to remember other days and times, die Nostalgie (Nostalgia).



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I flip the coin in the air and slap it onto my forearm but do not cover the head of Mars. “What do you call it?”

With the head of the coin in plain sight he laughs and says, “I call you verrückt (crazy). HEADS!”

I clap him on the shoulder, nearly knocking him over. “Humpf! I am so bad at this! How is it that I am lucky in so many other things but never win with the coin toss?”

I find the wachtmeister for Jasta 36, who wears the white, green, white cockade of Saxony, as I do. So, I make my request for enough fuel to limp home on in Sächsisch, which seems to please him. While this is being taken care of, Sigi and I talk to some of the pilots, a Leutnant named Böhning and a Vize named Patzer. I let Sigi do most of the talking, I can see that if he doesn’t get to tell someone about his D.H. 5 he’s going to burst into flames.

He’s well aware that I handed the Englishman to him and makes sure he lavishly praises my part in the attack, and also making certain it is understood that the credit is based on a coin toss, saying that I attacked even though there were six to seven of them strafing our people. I made it five, but who’s counting.


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The Staffelführer Ltn Walter von Bülow-Bothkamp comes up to see what’s going on in his cabbage patch so I have to put out my verdammt cigarette and salute.

A real aristocrat, this one, in his ‘Death’s Head Hussar’ uniform with the pre-war black and red cap, Turkish star on his right breast, riding breeches, crop in hand. A bit Hochnasig* he seems to me.

He’s cordial enough, though rather cool, as you would expect from one speaking to the lower orders. He’s an alumnus of Jasta 18 where he won his Hohenzollern.

Nice dog with him though. Tönnes, some sort of shaggy white mut, very friendly. I crouch down and pet him while the Leutnant talks to us. He looks down at me and I can see he would like to say something about this unmilitary behavior but decides against it.

Bothkamp congratulates Sigi on his Luftsieg then tells us to give his best to Paul and the rest of the old gang. Then he shoves off, promising to call the Staffel to let der Eiserne know where his stray sheep are. I suppose I could have gotten on the blower myself when we landed, but I saw no need since the question of where we were would be answered in the next half hour or so.

Tönnes stays with me until the Leutnant, appearing annoyed, calls him. Patzer tells me that he’s supposed to be the official Staffel mascot, but stays mostly with von Bülow-Bothkamp.

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While waiting I look at some of the blue nosed Albatrosn and made notes on their markings. Ltn Böhning….Hans, shows off his DV, of which he is particularly proud, to me. [/i]

It’s a beautiful aircraft, painted with the blue and white[i] rauten
so loved by the Bavarians. There are a number interestingly decorated machines. I ask Hans if he minds my coming by at some point to take pictures of himself and some of the others with these beauties, to which he agrees, pleased with the compliments I heap on his artwork.


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When we land at Harlebeke there’s back slapping all around for Sigi as we go to the office to fill out the Combat Reports.

This evening in the Pilotenkasino, der Eiserne congratulates Keller effusively. For one of our newest to add to the score so quickly is very encouraging. Successes have been all too few since we came here and our neighbors at Markebeke recently celebrated Jasta 11s 200th Luftsieg and Richthofen’s 58th.

Later der Meister comes over to my chair, where I have Franziska, one of his West Highlanders and named for his sister** in my lap, and comments. “Well, I see you have helped another Hasen to his first. How many does that make now?”

“He didn’t need my help; I was only there to cover him.”

“Just so, good work anyway, it will motivate him, and the others.” He raises his glass to me, I raise mine back and grunt and he walks away, back to Seppl, Auffarth and Klein.

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Tonight I dream of flames.



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23 August 1917


Donnerstag, 0915, we are over Wieltje at 4,000 meters. There are seven of us, led by Paul Strähle. Myself, Sepple, Otto Schober, our Oberleutnants, Jahns, Turck and Auffarth. Uffz Höhndorf is right up front in number 3 position where we can all keep an eye out for him on his first sortie over the lines.

The lower patrol, flying at 3,000 meters, is led by Jan Klein with von Barnekow, Runge and Keller.

The ground is obscured by a thick layer of cumulus from 500 meters down as low as 200. Above these are some gray nimbus.

At our altitude the glare of the sun is bright. Occasionally I hold my hand up to cover the bright disc to see if there are dots hiding in the glare.

Our route takes us from Warneton up to Wytschaete, Polygon Wald, Wieltje, Bixschoote, Dixmude, then back south to Langemarck. There is very little enemy activity far over their own lines. We see only Albatros patrols at the front.




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We land on the field at Harlebeke at 1015 in a misty rain which increases as the warm, humid day progresses.

Sigi Keller and I get permission to take the Benz out to try to find his D.H.5. Sepple and Klein tag along with a bottle and we make something of a party of it. Seppl brings Bella along.

The Lord crashed close to the road at a small village called Wallemolen on the east side of the ridge about two kilometers from St. Julien. Probably this area is within range of British artillery but, as it is on the far side of the ridge, should be fairly sheltered from observation.

There‘s a great deal of congestion on the muddy roads leading toward the front and it takes some time to locate the village, where some feldgrauen* at a battalion headquarters who saw the fight are able to lead us out to the field where most of the charred remains lie.

Bella and the mutts that hang around the battalion have a barking contest. There must have been some insults slung about because Sepple has to hold Bella in the car to prevent her from jumping out.

The feldgrau treat us like heroes. One of them, a Gefreiter relates that the pilot fell out. Upon impact the body bounced up again a few meters like a rubber doll before coming to rest. He can show us the way, “Over there near the farm with the poplars.”

So, possibly I didn’t manage to kill the pilot after all. Perhaps he jumped.

The colonel came out to see what all the racket was about. We all salute him and he replies with a couple of fingers in the way a Colonel generally returns salutes to those below him. He comes along with us.

The pilot falling or jumping out of the De Havilland reminds me of my most recent death, while still with Jasta 14. I experienced my greatest fear, being shot down in flames. I too jumped, and bounced just as described by this Gefreiter.

I reawakened under the dirty blanket that had been placed over my body. Really put the fear of God into the feldgrauen who were standing around me. I took several months to recuperate. I had some broken ribs which penetrated a lung, a fractured skull, of course, and my entire body was one large bruise.

The doctors were amazed at my quick recovery, that I recovered at all in fact. This was the true beginning of my reputation among my comrades as invincible and the were in awe of me.

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There’s not much to see, just twisted, blackened metal. The engine dug itself into the ground. There appears to be nothing to salvage.

A mound of dirt with no marker shows where the pilot was buried.

Sigi is quiet and seems embarrassed rather than elated now that he’s at the scene of his glorious victory.

As is my usual practice from ages past, I fish out a small coin from my pocket, this time all I have is a twenty pfennig, it will have to do. I place it on the mound. “Nam portitor.”

“You are a priest now?” Sepple asks.

I shrug and stomp out a cigarette asking the crowd, “Has anyone found a part of the wings?”



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Someone points to a nearby meadow. We have to cover a few hundred paces through high weeds to get there, silently accompanied by a group of curious onlookers. Bella is allowed lose now and runs around the field jumping and barking…in dog heaven.

There lay a piece of the upper wing with an aileron and part of a strut. On the olive green painted fabric the blue, white and red cockade is shining like the eye of a peacock.

There were other scraps of charred canvas and wood splinters around the area but nothing else was intact.

We hear explosions coming from the west and see dirt flying up into the air but we are on the far side of the ridge and cannot be seen. Still, a few overshoots fly overhead and land in the fields beyond us.

I look inquiringly at our Gefreiter friend who shrugs, “Just a little hate, nothing more. They are not coming today.”

We cut the cockade off the broken spars and ribbing and roll it up, then get back in the car. Everyone is silent for a while but soon their young minds put the unpleasantness out of their minds and we have a jolly ride back home.



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Training is still going on back at Harlebeke in spite of the occasional showers. It’s humid and unpleasant.

Keller and I take a turn, blasting at the targets and fighting in mock combat. He’s really quite good, thinks quick. He stalled out once in a turn. That’s easy to do in any Kiste, but it can cost you your life.

I help Sigi tack the cockade up on the wall of the Pilotenkasino and he paints the type, D.H.5, date and his name on the white portion. He hands the brush to me and says, “put your name on it too, you put as many bullets into it as I did.”

After Abendsbrot we go to the hangars to refill ammunition belts. There has been a new shipment of incendiary and I find more than the usual number of bad cartridges but otherwise it seems fine.


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I have an unpleasant task this evening. Spiess has asked for me to speak to Gefreiter Emil Malmann who has charge of the vehicles and drivers. This is one of the jobs der Eiserne has assigned to his Scherge. (Thug)

Gfr Malmann is about my size and build, broad shoulders, thick arms, tough looking. A broken nose and some missing front teeth. One would mistake him for a prize fighter in civilian clothing, a Hannoverander. He does, in fact, do some illegal prize fighting. I saw him in one when I was unable to sleep and heard something going on out by the Lys in the middle of the night. Margot was there and had his money on Malmann.

I studied him since I anticipated that at some point we would come into conflict one way or another. He harasses the Jews in the Staffel, some of whom I’m on friendly terms with.

He has a wooden foot in his boot as his price for getting out of the trenches. He could have used it as a Heimatschuss* but volunteered to return to duty. That sort of thing impresses der Eiserne and is one of the reasons he wants to keep the man.

Malmann is into a number of disagreeable things, running a protection racket against his own motor pool men, some black marketeering, gambling and the associated debt collecting, prize fighting, of course, both as a promoter and participant, some minor larceny and it’s suspected he may be a Lude (pimp) as well. This is the one thing in the report that was sent with me when I was reassigned from FA23 that wasn't true.

A man like this should be easy enough to get rid of but, with his disability he can’t be sent to the front lines and he’s very good at his job. Good help is difficult to find these days and useful men are siphoned off for the front lines in increasing numbers as the war drags on.

Spiess and der Meister don’t want to get rid of the man and a certain amount of such activities is to be expected in the lower ranks, but Malmann is just too brazen about it.

I ask him politely to join me in one of the unused hangar tents, he’s no fool and knows what it’s about.

We’re alone in the tent and I really only intend to speak some reason to him to begin with but he takes a swing at me.

I’ve been fighting with both weapons and bare hands for two millennia and I’ve learned from some of the best two thousand years were able to produce. On top of this I am the son of the god of war. No normal human being is a match for me.

I catch his fist in my right hand and force him down to his knees, nearly breaking the hand so that he’ll agree to have a reasonable conversation. I assure him that I want us to come to an equitable arrangement.

As soon as I release my grip on his hand the unreasonable beast whipped out a Kampfmesser (combat knife.) My instructions were not to disable the man any more than he already was but I just can’t abide this kind of behavior.

I broke his arm, suggesting to him that if he’s ever so foolish as to brandish a knife at me that he be sure to use one made from chocolate because I will make him eat it. “You do like chocolate. Yes?”
“I cannot hear you. Do I break the other arm?”

“Yes…yes I like chocolate.”

“Good, it is agreed then. You see, we can agree on something. It is a beginning.”


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He’s in a great deal of pain but he’s a hard man, he’ll live.

I help him up and place him in one of the chairs I had put in the tent for our conversation. Then I light a cigarette for him, one of the Ecksteins I recently acquired, and pull out the flask of schnapps I had intended to share with him during the negotiation.

I explain that his activities simply had to be more subtle and that the abuse of his subordinates must stop. He was actually quite reasonable about it all and I think we were both satisfied with the results of our conference.

I go with him over to the little medical office and bring Neumann, the Sanitätsunteroffizier (medical orderly, usually a Gefreiter) to look after him, leaving him with the pack of Ecksteins and the rest of the schnapps.

I believe with that Amerikanisch President…Lincoln that when you defeat an enemy you should, “Let em up easy.”

We both know that if he makes it necessary, I will kill him. But there’s no need to make an issue of it.

Before I leave him, I ask, as a personal favor, that he leave the Jews in the Staffel alone. I have good working relationships with most of them.

He agrees to this as well.

Spiess and der Eiserne are not happy about the arm but the hospital just set his arm and sent him back to us. He’s still able to do most of his work with one arm. So, all’s well that ends well. Yes?

Tonight the dreams are of the early days of this war. Before we sat down in the mud.


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Freitag, 24 August 1917

Paul leads the upper patrol this morning. It is 0700 when we approach the Polygonwald. Paul is very pleased with his new engine and it's a bit hard to keep up with.



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Below there is an operation to retake by storm the Herentageposten* at Polygonwald, our Infantry and Artillery machines are everywhere


* Herentageposten translates as 'daily post.' This was a minor counterattack where the Germans used flamethrowers and stormtroops, bombing, burning and bayonetting anything in their path, to recapture gun pits near Polygon Wood that had been taken by British 14th Division in an assault spearheaded by tanks on the 22nd.

This action took place in the 4. Armee Gruppe Wijtschate Sector and Jagdgruppe 7 is assigned to that group. Jagdgruppe 7 is sometimes referred to as Jagdgruppe Wijtschate.

“Fighting the Kaiser’s War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918,” Andrew Lucan and Jürgen Schmieschek, Pen and Sword 2015.




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We are seven Albatrosn at 3,500 meters, Paul, myself, Auffarth, Turck, Jahns, Seppl and Keller.

Jasta 24 is operating at 2,000 meters and our lower patrol, led by der Eiserne is lower still at between 1,000 and 500 meters, right down in the action.

Visibility is good, despite the intermittent showers but a strong southwesterly gale is a great nuisance. The morning is quite cool up at our altitude and I’m glad I put on my silk shirt and an extra pair of poor Otto’s heavy home-made socks. It’s supposed to be twenty degrees (Celsius) today but up here it will be at zero or below and it’s still quite early.



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The Lords are conspicuous by their absence so our artillery and infantry aircraft go about their jobs undisturbed. Only one flight of six Pups is seen and they stay on their side of the lines. The whole club is doing aerobatics.



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We’re home before 0800. It’s raining harder now and the wind can’t seem to make up its mind which direction to blow from, tossing us about. While leveling out during landing a gust pushes me to the ground too soon and I bounce up.

Jahns sets down in front of me. His left wing brushed the ground and he goes into a ground loop.

I have to quickly push the throttle and fly another circuit of the field.

The second try is much better. Beomia touches the grassy surface and rolls rumbling to a standstill. Georg and Heinrich come out to guide her, I buzz the engine until close to the hangar opening.



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IF YOU CHECKED IN EARLIER AND ARE WONDERING WHAT'S GOING ON....I GOT MY POSTINGS OUT OF ORDER SO I HAD TO DELETE WHAT I DID THIS MORNING. I AM NOT CORRECTING THE PROBLEM

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by F4UDash4. 03/26/24 05:51 PM
The Oldest WWII Veterans
by F4UDash4. 03/24/24 09:21 PM
They got fired after this.
by Wigean. 03/20/24 08:19 PM
Grown ups joke time
by NoFlyBoy. 03/18/24 10:34 PM
Anyone Heard from Nimits?
by F4UDash4. 03/18/24 10:01 PM
RIP Gemini/Apollo astronaut Tom Stafford
by semmern. 03/18/24 02:14 PM
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