downed German aircraft [postcard[?]

PFFF · 14 February 2018, 02:55 PM

P.65 [middle picture-postcard of downed plane[?]
https://archive.org/stream/ninetieth...ge/64/mode/2up

another online squadron history: 649th Aero Squadron
https://archive.org/stream/historyof...ge/n2/mode/1up

Volker_Nemsch · 15 February 2018, 03:52 AM

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... if the picture in the middle was copied from a postcard. But two details indicate that the demolished machine is of German origin:

1.) There are gaps where the German national markings had been when the machine was still in flyable condition. The (alliied) souvenir hunters had some time for their business before the photographer arrived. And why should the Americans print a picture with a non-German aircraft, while the comment is so different?

2.) The wreckage has N-struts between the upper and the lower wings and so my guess is, that this is the wreck of a Fokker D.VII.

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Ransom E. Olds · 15 February 2018, 01:41 PM

Something else that suggests it's a D.VII is the fact it still looks a great deal like an airplane. Most WW.I planes after any sort of a crash generally looked like kindling and strips of torn cloth. Ransom