[WWI] Nicknames
Diego Fernetti
dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar
Mon May 4 06:40:23 EDT 2009
> Did Germans have such names for any of their not too popular planes or was
"Möbelwagen" best they could offer?
> Or were their planes generally so good, taht you did not have to give them
names showing grim humour?
Pfalz monplanes (and others, which I can't recall) that were painted white
and had decorative black edging on them were called "death announcements"
since the newspapers published those short obituaries with a bold black edge
in those years.
D.
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