Great War Aviation Photos

GREAT WAR AVIATION PHOTOS
ALLIED AVIATORS

British Captain James McCudden, 54 victories

British Captain Albert Ball, 44 victories

RAF Squadron #1 at Ypres, July 1918

French Lieutenant Jean Navarre

Roland Garros, first aviator to score a victory by firing through the propeller

Lt Col William A. Bishop, VC, DSO, MC, DFC

2Lt William Rhodes-Moorhouse, first RFC VC

Capitaine Georges Guynemer, 53 victories

Major Raoul Lufbery, Lafayette Escadrille

Maj J. Huffer, US 94th Aero Sqdn with Maj Raoul Lufberry, Toul, 18 Apr 1918

Members of the US 94th Aero Squadron

US Lieutenant Frank Luke, Jr.

Lt. Frank Luke, Jr., US 27th Aero Squadron

Maj Charles J. Biddle

1st Lt Frank Luke, Jr.

Cpt Everett R. Cook

Cpt Thomas G. Cassady

Cpt Kenneth L. Porter

Cpt G. deFriest Larner

Cpt Douglas Campbell

Cpt David Ingalls, US Navy

1st Lt Charles D'Olive

US Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, 26 victories

Lt Edward Buford, Jr., US 95th Aero Squadron

Lt Eddie Rickenbacker, Lt Douglas Campbell, Capt Kenneth Marr, US 94th Aero Squadron

Brig Gen William Mitchell, commander of US squadrons on the Western Front

Colonel William Mitchell

Maj E. J. Steichen, Chief, Photographic Section, US Air Service

Italian Ace Major F. Baracca

Members of RFC 56 Squadron

Members of the Lafayette Escadrille

Home base of the Lafayette Escadrille at Ham

Love Field Aviation Camp, Dallas, TX, May 30, 1918

Aviation company, Love Field, Dallas, TX

Flying officers, Love Field, Dallas, TX

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ALLIED AIRCRAFT AND EQUIPMENT

BE-2C reconnaissance bomber

Three 5,000 cubic feet Nurse Balloons in Hangar. Fort Sill, Oklahoma, May 1, 1918

Training accident: allied plane crashed through the roof of a bakery

Personnel, 3d Motor Mechanics-1st Air Depot, Colombey, France, circa 1918

First Air Depot-Process of repairing damaged planes. Colombey, France, circa 1918

Crash truck driven by Cpl Louis Zwieback, 179th Aero Sqdn, Brooks Field, TX - Ed Zwieback

Armoured car of a French dirigible

Aerial view of a French airbase near Verdun

Salmson observation plane going over German lines under escort

American airfield at Issoudon, France

Aerial view of US Naval Air Station at Brest, France

Breguet bomber in flight

Reconnaisance camera attached to the side of a British plane

British airships Zero and Parseval

British plane dropping torpedo

British dirigible R27

Hydrogen gas cylinders for inflating balloons

British airships in their shed

British balloonist "bailing out"

British plane wrecked in a tree

Loading bombs onto a Handley-Page bomber

French anti-aircraft gun

Parachute flare dropped from aircraft

Air raid siren

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CENTRAL POWERS AVIATORS

Rittmeister Baron Manfred von Richtofen, "The Red Baron," 80 victories

Richtoffen's war trophys

Hermann Goering, 22 victories, Commander of Jasta 11 following Richtofen's death

Lothar von Richtofen, 40 victories

Paul Baumer, 43 victories

Rudolf Berthold, 44 victories

Fritz Rumey, 45 victories

Members of Jasta 11

Max Immelmann

Remains of Immelmann's Fokker

German balloonist "bailing out"

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CENTRAL POWERS AIRCRAFT & EQUIPMENT

Anthony Fokker testing Spandau machine gun synchronization mechanism

Rumpler

German airship and shed at Friedrichshaven

Heinrich Mathy, commander of Zepplin L31

Remains of German Gotha bomber shot down at Chateau Thierry

Wreckage of Zeppelin L-44 and the body of its commander

Framework of a Zeppelin shot down over England, 23 Sep 1916

German observation balloon leaving its hangar at Metz

Albatross D

"Shot down in flames"

Austrian and German troops manning anti-aircraft guns