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An Aviator's Field Book, by Oswald Bölcke
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Title: An Aviator's Field Book Being the field reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916
Author: Oswald Bölcke
Translator: Robert Reynold Hirsch
Release Date: September 17, 2009 [EBook #30011]
Language: English
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AN AVIATOR'S FIELD BOOK
Being the Field Reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914, to October 28, 1916
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY ROBERT REYNOLD HIRSCH, M.E.
WITH A FOREWORD BY
JOSEPH E. RIDDER, M.E.
1917 NATIONAL MILITARY PUBLISHING CO. 1919 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
[Illustration: COLONEL OSWALD BÖLCKE'S LAST PICTURE]
ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE
Colonel Oswald Bölcke's Last Picture Frontispiece
After His First Victory 32
The Enemy's Aeroplane in Ruins 33
The Master-Flier and His Men 64
Bölcke and His Brother Wilhelm, September, 1914 65
Donning His Flying Dress 96
An Aviator