Description
A German Air Force D III Albatros Scout aircraft, D636/17, flown by Oberleutnant Gustav Adolf Dittmar of Fliegerabteilung 300 unit. The aircraft had been shot down, practically intact, into AIF Light Horse lines near Bersheeba 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.
Details
Photographer
Joseph Patrick Conrick
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Format: 120 (roll film)
Support: Nitrate
Date Made
10 October 1917
Credit Line
Donor B Conrick
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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