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Old 30 May 2007, 09:50 AM   #1
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Question German Aircraft captured 2 OCtober 1918

2 October 1918 Lts. Reed Chambers and Capt Edward Rickenbacker brought down a Hanover C.IIIa. {Captured} What was unit and crew names?
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Old 30 May 2007, 10:27 AM   #2
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The Hannover was recently written about in Rick Duiven and Dan-San Abbott's excellent book, Schlachtflieger! The Hannover was not the aircraft shot down by Rickenbacker and Chambers, but rather by ground fire. Rickenbacker and Chamber's aircraft was an Halberstadt CL type that was destroyed on the ground by scavenging troops. The US Army contacted the 94th Aero when the Hannover came in to their hands intact and that his how the Hannover that appears in the photos and news reel footage came to be had. Don't have the book with the crew name with me at the moment... maybe they'll chip in!
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Old 30 May 2007, 10:33 AM   #3
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It was probably a crew from Schlachtstaffel 5. Pilot Vfw. Paul Holtmann and gunner Vfw. Fritz Hankner came down near Véry and became POW.

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Old 30 May 2007, 02:28 PM   #4
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Thanks for clearing that picture info up!
Who did the Halberstadt CL belong to?
Fate of crew?
What is Schlachtstaffel mean?

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Thanks for clearing that picture info up!
Who did the Halberstadt CL belong to?
Fate of crew?
What is Schlachtstaffel mean?
Schalchtstaffel means echelon (of battle) or however it can be translated into english

Schlachtstaffel 5 /Schutzstaffel 5 (Schlasta5/Schusta5) results out of Kampfstaffel 17 (Kasta17) which was Deployed on 01/01/1917 and renamed into Schlasta5 03/27/1918, this unit belonged to the 1st Army

Thats about all i could find on the web.
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