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Mittwoch, 5 September 1917

Nuer tag.

A fine day, warm, only a few clouds and a northwesterly wind.

Berthold leads the upper patrol. We have Alter Herr Dingel with us for his first patrol with the Staffel and Ltn Schüssler finally getting to make his first as a Jagdflieger. First, there was no aircraft for Schüssler, then he became ill, so his debute was somewhat delayed. He has Jahns’ machine.

Sepple is leading the lower patrol with Otto and Jan.

The lower patrol foundthree of the new Sopwith Camels northeast of Tenbrielen. Jan Klein attacked with the others in support and brought one of them down.


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John Lightfoot Trollope was credited with 18 aerial victories and died in 1958.

The Albatros DIII OAW skin for Johannes Klein was made by OvStachel in 2017

I believe Sandbagger was the maker of all the Camels.



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The second Patrouillenflüg,(patrol flight) of the day begins at 1100. It’s not in full strength, only myself, Runge, Schober and Klein, led by Seppl. A few more clouds have developed but it’s still a fine day for hunting. The wind is in our favor.

We fly to Warneton, then north to Ypres. The Flak is moderate and low. Sepple leads us in maneuvers that suggest to the gunners below that they’re zeroed in on us and the white puffs don’t trouble us.

We fly all the way to the flooded area, finding nothing on our side, then turn back, dropping down to 2,000 meters.

Near Zonnebeke two REs are harassing the feldgrau. We attack and the Flak fire stops.

The two REs separate. Runge, Schober and I concentrate on one while Sepple and Jan Klein go after the other.


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We cut off our REs escape and herd him back toward the west where our Flak starts up again, coming uncomfortably close to us as well as to the Engländers. Beomia takes several hits from the shrapnel.





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Schober and Runge keep an eye out for interference and block off the RE’s escape route while I continue to attack. After I do severe damage to his wings, the RE is forced to land near Oosthoek.




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Sepple and Klein’s chase terminates over the lines near Hoogen.

It goes straight down, crashing in the craters behind the British trench line.*

*Josef Veltjens did not shoot down an RE8 on this date, nor did he make a claim as far as is known. This noon patrol is entirely fictitious. It is a WOFF Campaign mission. Most of the patrols up to this point have been scripted from Paul Strähl’s diary. He’s on leave for most of September so there is limited material on day to day activities other than weather information and documented patrols where aerial victories were achieved by the Staffel.



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Schober and Runge attach themselves to me and we look for Seppl and Klein in the direction of the front but don’t find them so we return to Harlebeke. Sepple and Klein come in about fifteen minutes later.




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We all discuss the fight then go toward the office. I go in the opposite direction.

Seppl asks, “Aren’t you coming to fill out a claim?”

“I hadn’t planned to…Flak and ground fire took our Kiste down.”

Runge and Schober, in unison “No it didn’t, we saw you nearly shoot the wings off the thing.”

“No…it was Flak. You saw how close it came to me also. One of you are welcome to contest the Flak claim. You both put some holes in it as well. I’m not wasting my time.”

Sepple turns, “As you will.” and the others follow him.



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I’m called into der Meister’s office about a half hour later.

Eiserne: “Why haven’t you put in a claim for your RE?”

Myself: “I have no claim to make. Ground fire and Flak brought it down. The holes in my bird’s wings attest to how much fire was coming from the ground.”

Eiserne: “Quatsch!* That is not what Runge and Schober say!”

Myself: “They are mistaken. They were too far away to know.”

Eiserne: “This is not the first time you have neglected to make a claim. I do not know what your problem is but you will not continue in this way!”

“This is a matter of the honor of the Staffel. The number of Aircraft shot down is what a Jagdstaffel is judged by. It reflects badly on this Staffel and your comrades if you do not claim your Luftsieg!”

He failed to mention the most important point. It didn’t make him look good.

“You will go to the office and you will claim that RE, for this Staffel and you will not mention Flak or ground fire!

“Is this understood!” He was screaming by this time.

“At your orders Herr Oberleutnant!”

“Verdammter noch mal!
He says to my back.

*a rude expression similar to nonsense.



NOTE: See map above in post 44 for the location of aerial victories of all the patrols for 5 Sep.



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Our evening hunting flight was scheduled for 1700 but before 1500 we received an alert to intercept British bombers, apparently on their way toward Ghent.

Those of us that were fueled and ready took off with Berthold and, following the line of black specks in the sky engaged them at 5,000 meters near Iseghem.

These were some of the big D.H. 4 machines. After a chase of about twenty kilometers, der Eiserne forced one of these down near Thielt.**

**Ref. Osprey “Jasta 18; the Red Noses,” Greg VanWyngarden. This was D.H.4 A7530 of No. 55 Squadron. Lt John William Fraser Neill and 2Lt Thomas Milligan Webster were taken prisoner.
Thielt is not on this map square so I have marked Iseghem instead with an arrow indicating the direction of the chase.


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It begins to rain lightly when we return to Harlebeke.

Vater was not able to take part in the chase of the D.H.4s as he is having problems with his engine. He’s in the air, testing the work done on it.

I’m talking to Dieter, watching Vater land and taxi up to the hangars. Two of his ground crew, Wilke and Zadeck , squat on a tool chest chatting. Next to them, Max is lying in the grass stretching out all four of his legs.



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Vater’s bird rolls across the field in a wide arc and draws closer, first grumbling angrily and then softly whistling and grinding. Max starts up from his slumber and springs towards the machine, knowing it is Vater and greeting him with the joy that only a dog can feel. He circles around the machine barking and accompanies the Haifisch until it stops twenty paces in front of us.



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“Look at that crazy mutt!,” Wilke shouts. Max is bouncing like a rubber ball. Then he squeezes through beneath the wings and straightens up, resting his forepaws against the fuselage. Vater, who is standing up in the cockpit now, stretches his hand towards him. Max whines as he licks it.

Then he races forward again toward the gently paddling propeller. CRACK!

“What was that?”


The propeller stops, broken in splinters. A black heap plops to the ground thirty paces to the side…Max.

“Well he’s had it,” Says Zadeck and tosses his cigarette away.

We all run over. There lies a panting black bundle. A thin string of blood is running from his nose and mouth. His rear shank has been split by a deep wound. Below his hock his leg is bent at a right angle. Wilke bends over the silently twitching animal. Everyone assembles around us. In the background Margot is cursing. “Mist! This is great! Such a stupid animal! Look at that verdammt propeller!”

Der Meister is there now and disperses those standing idly about. They should get back to work.

“What the hell you deppen gawking at? Perhaps you have never seen a butcher shop before. I will not have any more dogs on the airfield…stupid…stupid. It must have severed his spine…No? but he’s lost his leg. His skull will also be cracked…stupid…stupid”

Vater is kneeling silently beside his dog.

“We will have to shoot him right away,” Wilke murmurs as he straightens up and slaps the dirt off his knees. He means well.

Vater slowly turns his head towards us. His deathly sad eyes, half hidden beneath his thick lids, are fixed meaningfully upon Berthold for a second. Then he looks at his friend, gently slips his hand beneath his heavy head and slowly turns it toward him.

“Then you may as well shoot me as well,” he says.

There follows an awkward silence. Margot breaks off in the middle of his cursing.




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I have seen many wounds in my time. I bend over the leg wound and spread it apart with my thumb and index finger. One could easily lay a hand in the gaping salmon pink hole..

“Just the muscle has been hacked through..the leg is unfortunately broken. But maybe that too can be mended. Besides that he will have suffered a concussion…perhaps internal
injuries.?”

“So you are also a doctor?” Wilke growls. He feels a bit hurt because his well-intentioned advice appears to have been overly hasty. Vater casts a grateful look towards me.

Malmann and one of his driver’s speeds off with the Benz to get hold of a veterinarian. I stay with Vater and we put on a temporary bandage.

The others go about their business. We move Max, carefully on a litter, to Vater’s quarters as it begins to rain.

It’s well after Abendsbrot when the driver and Malmann return. He has with him a Tierarzthelferin * who offered to accompany him in a humanitarian, or rather animal-loving fashion, since a veterinarian could not be found.

Max is still unconscious when they arrive.

The medical man straightens the broken leg, removes the splinters with tweezers, sets it in splints and covers it with plaster of Paris. He conscientiously shaves the fur around the wound and stitches the folds of skin with a curved needle.

The Tierarzthelferin tells us that Max will probably pull through. He will have another look at him later this evening and inject him with camphor in order to stimulate his heart.



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Vater is touchingly grateful. He will probably be up all night with Max. I leave them alone.

When the Tierarzthelferin returns I have a nice present waiting for him.**


*Non-commissioned Veterinarian’s helper.

**Story adapted from one told by Otto Fuchs in his, Wir Flieger, translated with commentary by Adam M. Wait and published by Shiffer as “Flying Fox.” The story is about a Newfoundland named Wotan who belonged to a fellow pilot in FAA 292b.




ENDE


Looking back at the last posting, I see that I don’t have the lozenge wings on Beomia…OOPS!

What’s done is done.






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Dienstag
, 9 September 1917

Neuer tag.


Jasta 24 has come from Huele to join us here at Harlebeke. They moved in on the other side of the field yesterday and are still setting up. They're in the process of re-equipping with the Albatros DV.

The pilots will be quartered in a chateau near the south edge of the landing field.


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The fog and rain have let up and there is brisk enemy activity along the front this afternoon.

It is 1430 and der Eiserne is leading us on a hunt over Hollebeke at 4,000 meters. There are six of us, Eiserne, Sepple, Auffarth, myself, Keller and Klein. Jan Klein takes the highest position in the rear to be our guardian angel.

In the sunlight the fuselages of our brightly colored birds glow splendidly; reminding me of the of the bright colors displayed by the knights long, long ago. These too served the purpose of identifying the wearer by his family or the organized body to which he belongs so that his deeds are noted.

Our own colors, Gules and Azure, would have symbolized the warrior and noble cast and truth and sincerity.



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Vater is leading the lower patrol, with Runge, Otto Schober, Schüssler and Alter Herr Dingel. The Flak is light, and concentrates mostly on them.


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A formation gradually approaches us. It’s higher than we are, and with the sun in our eyes we can’t tell whether it belongs to friend or foe.



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Now those machines are above us, and we spot their cockades in the sunshine…Camels.

We close up and await their attack.

A verey light shines out on high and sinks towards us with long trails of smoke…the signal to attack, given by the English leader.*


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*Yeah, yeah…I know…we don’t have flare signals for scouts in WOFF. Use your imagination.



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They dive down on us and a lively Luftkampfes begins with these ‘Sons of Albion.’*
The air reeks of castor oil.

*a term used in many sermons and religious articles in the German wartime newspapers. Eber would use such a term in a comic sense.


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It’s impossible for me to keep track of Eiserne.

I see Keller foolishly get involved in a Kurvenkempf with one of the Camels. At lease he has the sense to turn to the left. I flip over and reverse direction to break up the party.

I fire at the Tommy and he drops into a spin.

I look around for the next target and everything is calm. I see only our machines and a few dots in the distance, to the west.


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We begin to reform on der Eiserne.


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When I walk into the Pilotenkasino this evening, Vater is paging through a magazine, one of the Die Jugend from Gerbig, frowning. “This is disgusting filth. How did it get in here?”

I shrug.

Max hobbles towards me on three legs, the fourth in bandages. He greets me with a slight wag of the tail. I get down on my knees and rub him and speak to him. He smells the pieces of sausage I have in my pocket for him. It looks like he’s going to be just fine.

“By the way, congratulations on your RE. I hear the confirmation came through.” Vater says. “Too bad about Sepple’s…. eine zur Landung gezwungen I hear.”

I simply grunt.


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I don’t like to make victory claims. I prefer to remain in the shadows. Calling attention to myself puts me in danger of being discovered for what I am.

If rich, powerful people were ever to come to know about me they would make a laboratory rat of me so they could try to find out a way to cheat death.

That would be a living death for me.

I’ve been very successful at staying hidden. I have been discovered on a few occasions and I had to kill a number of people to suppress that knowledge, witch hunters, an inquisitor that thought he had found some sort of demon. I had to spill a lot of blood on that occasion.

When I joined the Luftstreitkräfte, I thought it would be a low visibility assignment. I had no idea that the air war would become so prominent and so much attention would be paid to successful pilots.

Even when Berthold asked for me in Jasta 14 I only thought the limelight would shine on the kanone, like himself, Boelcke, Immelmann and their like.

This Luftsieg makes three confirmed.

Franz Höhndorf has died. He took over Jasta 14 after Berthold was given this command. An old comrade from the FFA 23/Kampfeinsitzer KIommando Vaux days and a Blue Max man. Died in a crash, test flying some prototype or other.

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Dienstag, 11 September 1917

Neuer tag.

The mid-day hunting flight leaves the ground at 1445. The upper patrol is led by der Eiserne.

There are seven of us, myself, Sepple, Jan, Otto Schober, Alter Herr Dingel and Schüssler. Seppl takes the highest position in the rear.

As we reach our intended patrol altitude of 4.000 meters, smudges of Flak can be seen to the south of Kortrijk.


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We climb higher as the Flak moves toward us. There is a wedge of green geese within the puffs of black smoke. I make them to be D.H.4s, five of them. They’re dropping bombs on the Kortrijk rail sidings.

Eiserne fires three shots to signal an attack and dives. We follow in formation, firing at the nearest olive green shape then separating after we pass through the enemy. The bomber formation breaks up and we each pick our target.

I keep my distance, attracting the fire of the English Franzen to distract them from Berthold and the others trying to get behind and below them.

Berthold receives such a heavy dose of lead that he lets go of his opponent as the Britisher dives toward the west.



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I just wanted to show off these WOFF Skin Pack skins. The two D.H.4s lost were from No. 57 Squadron, just not these particular guys..


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By ones and twos the others reform on der Eiserne as he circles above the Eisenbahn.* Dingel does not join us and so we continue to circle for another ten minutes before Berthold leads us back home.

On the ground again at about 1530, no one saw our Uhlan after the enemy formation broke apart.

Spiess comes running up to der Eiserne and says that Dingel has made a good emergency landing near a rear area rest camp at Moorseele. He has a hole in his fuel tank so a crew will have to go to repair his machine.

Now that we know Alter Herr DIngel is safe there are congratulations all around for Otto, who has his first Luftsieg. We pick him up and carry him to the Pilotenkasino where champaign is opened and poured over his head.**

*Literally, iron road - railroad

**This is Schober’s first and only aerial victory, a D.H.4 from No. 57 Squadron, A.7439. Shot down near Terhand. Both crewmen were killed.


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We do not see Dingel until we gather in the Kasino after the evening patrol. He has the big rudder of one of the bombers propped up against a wall. He chased one of the Engländers to the Moorseele area where he shot the wings off him.*

*Walter Dingel’s second and last aerial victory. A D.H.4 from No. 57 Squadron, A.7583. Shot down near Moorseele, Both crewmen were killed.



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Dingel’s emergency landing is fiction. The damage to his aircraft only happened during the WOFF fight in Campaign land.



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It’s an auspicious day for our newest member to join us. We now have Ltn Walther Kleffel among us, late of FAA 296 and Jagdeschule 1 and a comerade of Weinschenk’s from Jäger Regt zu Pferd Nr. 6. He’s quite disappointed that Weinschenk is not among us at this time. It’s assumed that he’ll be back with us after his recovery but the time frame is uncertain.


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Mittwoch, 12 September 1917

Neuer tag.

No rain, cloudy, 17 degrees.

Bombing has been going on almost every day at Huele and Markbeke airfields.

Turck and I take Junger Kleffel out for his first orientation flight this morning at 0800. He uses Paul’s machine.*



*WOFF assigned Kleffel the horseshoe I use. Did not make a Pfalz an Alb DIII OAW or DVII. What he flew is unknown.


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We show him the sites, west along the Lys and the Kortrijk rail line to Wevelghem and Menen; up along the old Roman road from Menen to Ypres to Gheluwe; southwest to Wervicg along the rails to Warneton and on west to Hollebeke; now northeast along behind the lines to Ghetuevelt and Moorslede; west over Passchendaele to Langemark; doubling back to Poelkappelle where we heard this morning that a pilot from Jagdstaffel 3 shot down the Baguette’s Oberkanone* Guynemer yesterday; north to the Houthulster Wald and the flooded area; now east toward Roulers, Iseghem and Ingelmunster where we can follow the Eisenbahn** back down to Kortrijk before turning east and home.

*top gun
* *Literally, iron road - railroad


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We make an evening Patrouillenflüg at 1700, Otto Klein, Keller, myself, Richard Runge, Seppl leads.

The weather is still cloudy and warm.

We scout along the lines opposite Ypres at 3,500 meters hoping to find an English arbeitsfieger. (Working pilot) There is little Flak.

Three silvery Nieuports pass above us and seem to be going their own way until one of them tumbles down like an acrobat, then comes at us from behind.


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The other two Napoleons stay above. Perhaps they’re Hasen, and this one wants to show them how it is done.



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The silver devil is an excellent flier and his Nieuport, though not one of the very newest type, is very fast and he flies rings around us. None of us can lay a hand on him.

Perhaps he is their Albert Ball returned to life.

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He climbs out of our reach and he and his companions continue on their way.


We’re lucky Berthold wasn’t leading this patrol. We’d never hear the end of it. All of us agree to an acceptable story and play it down when he asks about the encounter later that evening.


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#4621646 - 02/28/23 01:12 PM Re: DEAD IS NOT DEAD [Re: jerbear]  
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Absolutely brilliant stuff mate, imo this should be sticked is there anyone else here that’s reading Jerbears “Dead is not dead” works?.

Fantastic writing and screenshots Jerbear. cheers


They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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