J02258 Accession Number: J02258

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A German Air Force DIII Albatros Scout aircraft, D636/17, flown by Oberleutnant Gustav Adolf Dittmar of Fliegerabteilung 300 squadron. The aircraft had been shot down, practically intact, into AIF Light Horse lines near Beersheba by a Bristol fighter aircraft flown by Lieutenant R Steele a Canadian pilot with No 111 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. No 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, members recovered the machine and moved it to their airfield where repairs, including a bullet holed radiator, were carried out returning it to flying condition. The aircraft is at the aerodrome at Sheikh Nuran.

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Accession Number
J02258
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Support: Nitrate
Date Made
10 October 1917
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor E S Claydon
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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