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A blog about Imperial Germany in 1914 during the Great War, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurt., and Saxony. Army Navy Aviation.

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    Destroyed German Aerial engines

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:May 12, 2024
    • Post category:Gottfried Alexander van der Horst/Things that Fly

    Shown here are destroyed German Aerial engines post Armistice in a German service depot.As the Aerial service was by the start of ww1 still in a relative infancy it was…

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    Gotha G.IV twin engine bomber

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:March 7, 2024
    • Post category:Gottfried Alexander van der Horst/Things that Fly

    Imperial German Gotha G.IV twin engine bomber (1055/16) in the Royal Dutch Airforce base at Soesterberg.On 18 August 1917 this brand-new craft along with another were returning from a bombing…

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    PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 215 Edmund Nathanael 

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:February 20, 2024
    • Post category:PEEBLES PROFILES/Things that Fly

    PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 215Edmund NathanaelEdmund Nathanael was born in Dielsdorf on December 18, 1889.Little is known if Nathanael first served in a ground unit when the Great War began. It was…

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    PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 212 Alexander Zenzes

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:January 26, 2024
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    PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 212Alexander ZenzesAlexander Montanus Zenzes was born in the Saxon town of Chemnitz on July 10, 1898.His name first appeared on the rolls of Marine Flieger Jagdstaffel II. Flying…

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    PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 187 Franz Büchner

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:August 3, 2023
    • Post category:PEEBLES PROFILES/Things that Fly

    PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 187Franz BüchnerYOUNG SOLDIER TURNED PILOTBorn on January 2, 1898 in the Saxon town of Leipzig, Franz Büchner was the son of a businessman. At the age of only…

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    PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 185 Karl Schlegel

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:July 17, 2023
    • Post category:PEEBLES PROFILES/Things that Fly

    PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 185Karl Schlegel:the last German air ace to die in the Great WarKarl Paul Schlegel was born in Wechselburg, (in the Kingdom of Saxony) on May 7, 1893. At…

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    PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 179 Hans Imelmann 

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:June 5, 2023
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    PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 179Hans ImelmannHans Imelmann was born in Hannover on May 14, 1897. His first known military service was piloting a Fokker Eindekker for one of the early fighter units,…

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    PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 177 Friedrich Friedrichs

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:May 23, 2023
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    PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 177Friedrich FriedrichsFriedrich "Fritz" Friedrichs was born in Spork, Westphalia on February 21, 1895, the son of a customs official. Young Fritz attended the Hermann-Tast Gymnasium and received his…

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    PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 168 Otto Könnecke

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:March 21, 2023
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    EARLY YEARSThe son of a carpenter, Otto Könnecke was born in Straßberg (located in Saxony-Anhalt) on September 20, 1892. He attended the Building Trade School in Frankfurt am Main and…

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    PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE 158 Hans Baur

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:January 11, 2023
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    PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 158Hans Baur: the obscure ace who became the personal pilot to Adolf HitlerWORLD WAR IJohannes “Hans” Baur was born on June 19, 1897 in Ampfing in the Kingdom…

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