> >> All of my sources say the plane he flew was a Fokker D-III.
> > Not an EIII, by any chance?
Not by any chance: I see the error of my ways now 80)
What was I thinking of?
> They seem quite clear about it being a D-III.
So they should be: it was in fact Fok DIII 352/16. I can't find any
reference to him having flown an EIII.
Several books agree that Jasta
> 2 received (borrowed?) two Fokker D-IIIs and one Albatros D-I, on 1 Sept.
> 1916. Why he did not fly the one Albatros has puzzled me.
He probably did at some stage: 426/16 was the first of a batch of
six delivered to Jasta 2.
> Heinz Nowarra, in two different books, says that Boelcke's D-III survived the
> war and was on display in Berlin until it was destroyed by Allied bombing in
> 1944.
Could be, although I tend to be a liitle suspicious of Heinz now
and again.
Cheers,
Mick.
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