[WWI] Beersheba aircraft

[dave fleming]

Quoting Shane Weier <bristolf2b at hotmail.com>:

> 
> Talking to myself here, but someone else might be interested...
> 
> >The *eyewitness* accounts of the day call the plane a "Taube", but then
> that was the >same name given by most diggers in that theatre for every
> enemy aircraft
> 
>  
> 
> >Considering that this was 31 October 1917 it seems unlikely to me -
> it's just a couple of >months before 1AFC were flying Bristol Fighters
> in the same area
> 
> Home now, and I have access to my books. Vol VIII of the Australian Official
> History mentions 111 RFC as already having Bristol F.2b aircraft in mid
> October, and records an Albatros "Scout" as having been shot down in LH lines
> only slightly damaged. 1AFC repaired and flew it, which makes the
> identification fairly certain.
> 

D.III D636/17 then.

Interestingly, the DVa(Trop) I'm interested in was also captured (and flown) by 111RFC, but appears in one photo 
with an Aussie.

 There were a couple of DVs captured, but none seem to match exactly the one in RFC markings.

Dave

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