The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The first Hun aircraft (an Albatros scout in background) serial D.636, brought down intact on the Palestine front. The German pilot, Oberleutnant Gustav Adolf Dittmar, (left in leather coat) was disagreeably surprised at the speed of the RE8 aircraft which he encountered, but which was in reality the first two seater 'Bristol Fighter' used in Palestine. The officer in the foreground is Lieutenant Colonel R Williams, DSO, OBE, Commanding officer of 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps.
A German D III Albatros Scout aircraft, D.636/17, flown by Oberleutnant Gustav Adolf Dittmar of Fliegerabteilung 300 unit. The aircraft had been shot down, practically intact, into AIF Light Horse lin
Weli Sheikh Nuran, Palestine. 10 October 1917. 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
Weli Sheikh Nuran, Palestine. 10 October 1917. 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
Weli Sheikh Nuran, Palestine. 10 October 1917. 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
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
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 Lig
