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German aeroplane squadronVintage Photographs - Aviation
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photos of aircraft and aviators.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

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French sausage balloon (WW) Sausage balloon rising (WW)
American air squadron in flight at Kelly Field, San Antonio (WW) U.S. searchlight watching for enemy aircraft (WW)
U.S. dirigible D U-1 leaving for its maiden flight (WW) Raoul Lufberry (WW)
War artist and ace Lieut. Henry Farre (WW) Leading French air ace Georges Guynemer (WW)
U.S. Marines with anti-aircraft gun (WW) U.S. troops firing an anti-aircraft gun (WW)
German aircraft disturbs Canadian anti-aircraft gun crew (WW) British airmen examine Richthofen's guns following his demise (WW)
French anti-aircraft automobile gun in Picardy (WW) Range finding for French anti-aircraft gun (WW)
German biplane brought down in flames behind Allied lines (WW) Pulling a British anti-aircraft gun into position (WW)
Motor bus carrying a French aircraft (NW) Photo taken from the bridge of a Zeppelin during a London air raid (NW)
French adaptation of the German Zeppelin (NW) Stern view of a wartime Zeppelin (NW)
German battleship squadron with its guardian Zeppelin (NW) A French triplane (NW)
English dirigible balloon at manoeuvres (NW) German Zeppelin inspecting Warsaw (NW)
A French aircraft with two machine guns joined via a turret (NW) Verdun aviation camps as seen from a French aeroplane (NW)
A French balloon making its descent as the gas was escaping (NW) Gun and gunners who downed a Zeppelin L77 with a lucky shot (NW)
Aerial photo of a German gas attack on the Eastern Front (HW) An aircraft about to attack a Zeppelin over England (HW)
British airmen inspect a large bomb (HW) Belgian military observation balloon (HW)
Aerial photo of a French attack on the naval base at Trieste (HW) Mechanics tuning up a giant British bomber in 1918 (HW)
Sir David Henderson (GW) German naval Zeppelin hovering over aircraft base at Heligoland (GW)
British seaplane armed with a machine gun (GW) Biplane with machine gun in its bow (GW)
Weight-caryying biplane used to drop bombs (GW) Biplane with curved-back, used by the German air force (GW)
Two-seater British monoplane used for scouting (GW) The 'Spiess' a rigid-type French airship (GW)
French non-rigid airship used for detailed reconnaissance (GW) British patrol airship above Ostend (GW)
A German Taube (GW) A 'Flight' of French military aeroplanes (GW)
Aircraft fitted with quick-firing gun, manned by a marksman (GW) Belgian military cyclists sniping at a German aeroplane above Ostend (GW)
British aircraft at the Front in France (GW) Flight-Lieutenant C. H. Collet, R.N., D.S.O. (GW)
Flight-Lieutenant R. L. Marix, R.N., D.S.O. (GW) Wing-Commander Charles R. Samson, R.N., D.S.O. (GW)
Flight-Lieutenant Sidney V. Sippe (GW) A Zeppelin being drawn out from a huge Dusseldorf hangar (GW)
German airship shed with Zeppelin over it (GW) An anti-aircraft gun (GW)
View inside a Zeppelin shed containing two Zeppelin aircraft (GW) Squadron-Commander E. F. Briggs (GW)
Flight-Commander T. J. Babbington (GW) German dirigible emerging from its shed (GW)
German quick-firing, anti-aircraft gun at work (GW) British AVRO aircraft (GW)
German Taube aircraft downed behind Allied lines (GW) Airships of the British Aircraft Service, 'Gamma' and 'Delta' (GW)
British aircraft used for reconnaissance work over Sinai Peninsula (GW) Naval sea plane descending through engine failure in the North Sea (GW)
Men of the Royal Naval Flying Corps, led by Commander Samson (GW) Flight-Commander Hewlett, rescued at sea following Cuxhaven raid (GW)
Claude Graham-White (GW) An army aeroplane in transit (GW)
An aerial duel over the French lines (GW) Second-Lieutenant Rhodes-Moorhouse, V.C. (GW)
Remains of German Zeppelin L3, wrecked on coast of Fanoe, Denmark (GW) Sub-Lieutenant R. A. J. Warneford, V.C. (GW)
Captain Anthony Marshall, D.S.O. (GW) Flight-Commander Bigsworth, D.S.O. (GW)
An aeroplane's billet in the tree-tops (GW) Captain J. A. Liddell, V.C. (GW)
Russian Army Sikorsky super-biplane, capable of holding 16 (GW) Captured German Fokker aircraft brought down on the Western Front (GW)
Second-Lieutenant G. S. M. Insall, V.C. (GW) Captain Robert Loraine, M.C. (GW)
The war in the air (GW) Captured German Albatross dispatched by rail behind Russian lines (GW)
French airman Pegoud (GW) Gabriele D'Annunzio (GW)
British Flight Sub-Lieutenant R.A.J. Warneford, V.C. (GWS) Gabriele D'Annunzio (GWS)
Roland Garros (JH) Death of a Prussian observation officer, whose Aviatik was downed (GWS)
View of a Turkish town on the Dardanelles from a French aircraft (GWS) View of a Turkish town on the Dardanelles from a French aircraft (GWS)
2nd-Lieutenant Rhodes-Moorhouse, V.C. (GWS) Sub-Lieutenant Warneford, V.C. (GWS)
Rear-Admiral Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee, Director of Air Services (GWS)  

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