[WWI] Nicknames

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The "Tin Donkey" was not the J.I , or the D.I, it was the  first Junkers experimental prototype circa 1915. A early Brit was called the 'tin whistle', and for fictional nicknames, you forgot the most famous of all the Fokker D.VIII-"Flying Razor", The DFW B's were called "flying Banana " ( due to the wing shape). The Germans used 'mobelwagen' several times, in both wars, for anything bi g and bulky. 

  



Merrill 





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Mason" <tom.mason at charter.net> 
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Come to think of it the Germans had a few like the DFWT28 "floh" and wasn't the Junkers D.I called a donkey or something like that? 

T.O.M. 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Crawford Neil 
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The whispering death was the F4U Corsair    

Have to say that I think that's just allied propaganda! Same as the Beaufighter in Britain. 


  and Curtiss called al there airplanes hawk or some derivation of it as goshawk etc.   

Yes thats why Demon was so wrong, they started calling them that after the war 
when someone read  Demon instead of Demonstrator! 

  To get back to OT as someone mentioned before the Germans didn't seem to have the penchant for names much less derogatory names as did the British. 

T.O.M. 


 There was the Walfisch, or was that a British invention? 
/Neil  
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