The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Captured German aircraft at El Afule. From left to right are three Albatros DVa fighters, including D5359/17, (the white-tailed aircraft, as identified from photograph B02870), a DFW CV (probably CV 4432) and an Armstrong Whitworth FK 8 aircraft. See also B02870 and B02943. The Albatros nearest the camera has had its original national insignia (a cross patee) repainted to the Balkan cross. The aircraft carries a large horizontal light/dark/light stripe running the length of the fuselage. This stripe continued over the spinner (with the propeller blade being vertical). In mid fuselage, just behind the cockpit, is painted a large swastika. This was a relatively common heraldic device applied to aircraft in the First World War.
Captured German aircraft at El Afule. An Albatros DVa serial D5359 (foreground), a DFW CV serial number 4432 is in the background and to the right is another Albatros DVa. Unusually, the colored stri
Captured German aircraft at an enemy aerodrome after the Australian Light Horse had taken possession. An Albatros DVa serial D5359 (foreground) and a DFW CV serial 4432 is in the background. An Albat
Four intact captured German DFW CV Reconnaissance bi-planes sitting on the landing strip at El Afule Aerodrome, Palestine. The planes were captured at Esdraelon. There is a British Armstrong Whitwort
A large group of unidentified Australian soldiers inspect a German DFW CV aircraft brought down in battle near Vauvillers. Note the body of crewman.
PALESTINE. 1918. GERMAN ALBATROS D.III AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE AT THE ENEMY AERODROME AT JENIN, AFTER OCCUPATION BY THE AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE. (LENT BY MAJOR H L BRISBANE) [NOTE RUDDER HAD LATE TYPE OF CRO
Canberra, ACT, 1955. A small group of RAAF servicemen stands next to the two halves of the fuselage of Avro Lancaster BI W4783 (G for George) during their task of reassembling the bomber aircraft afte
