#werner voss

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Fokker F.I triplane (103/17) of 48 victory ace Leutnant Werner Voss, pictured with his mechanics, Gefreiter Christian Rueser and Karl Timms. The F.I was the prototype for the Dr.I triplane. Two were made, one was given to 80 victory ace Manfred von Richthofen and the other to Werner Voss. Voss was KIA in this aircraft on 23.9.17 and ironically, 32 victory ace Oberleutnant Kurt Wolff was KIA flying the other prototype, 102/17, on 15.9.17. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

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Part 3 of my picture spam

Manfred and some Fritz von falkenhayn

Lothar and Erich lowdenhart

Lothar talking to his dad

Manfred with some other people

Lothar when still training to be a pilot

Voss when still Training to be a pilot

Teletubbie Lothar

Lothar, Wolff, Manfred and comrades.

Voss and Bernert

Voss and his two brothers

Like I said in my last 2 parts, if you posted these then please take the credit because most of these pictures are off of tumblr and I didn’t put the effort in of restoring and posting them.

This is the last part

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Haven't posted any pilots for quite some time. Frankly, because I got bored and there aren't any new pictures left. But today I feel like posting some.

Manfred von Richthofen and Werner Voss departing Crefeld airfield after visiting Werners family 1917.

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1917 09 23 The Sun Sets On Werner Voss - Wilson Hurley

photochopped version of the original to include correct markings done by a friend, not mine

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Once again I must interrupt your feed to show you this photo of Bernert and Voss together .

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little guy parade

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Werner Voss

Werner Voss was a World War I German flying ace credited with 48 aerial victories. A dyer's son from Krefeld, he was a patriotic young man while still in school. He began his military career in November 1914 as a 17‑year‑old Hussar. After turning to aviation, he proved to be a natural pilot.

He was wounded in action with 6 Naval Squadron on 6 June 1917. Killed during a legendary dogfight with seven S.E.5as, Werner Voss drove two planes to the ground and damaged the rest before his silvery blue Fokker DR.I was shot down by Arthur Rhys Davids.

"Capt. J. McCudden, No. 56 Squadron ... saw a S.E.5a fighting a triplane, so with others dived at it, and for the next ten minutes the enemy triplane fought the five S.E.5s with great skill and determination. Eventually, however, it was destroyed by 2nd-Lieut. Rhys Davids of the same squadron, who had previously driven down a two-seater. . .The triplane was seen to crash in our lines by other pilots and the other occupant proved to be Lieut. Werner Voss, who was killed." Royal Flying Corps Communique

"I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single handed, fought seven of us for ten minutes . . . I saw him go into a fairly steep dive and so I continued to watch, and then saw the triplane hit the ground and disappear into a thousand fragments, for it seemed to me that it literally went into powder." James McCudden

"His flying was wonderful, his courage magnificent and in my opinion he is the bravest German airman whom it has been my privilege to see fight." James McCudden

"If I could only have brought him down alive..." Arthur Rhys Davids to James McCudden

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Veronika Voss (1982)

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On this day in European art cinema history (18 February 1982): Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s despairing black-and-white masterpiece (or should I say “meisterwerk” in this context) Veronika Voss (aka Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss or The Longing of Veronika Voss) was released in German cinemas. The film is pretty much saturated in premonitions of death: it was Fassbinder’s second last movie, and the last one released during his lifetime. (His final film was his adaptation of Jean Genet's Querelle – released posthumously - which I also love. The New German cinema auteur died on 10 June 1982 aged 37). Veronika covers the bleak circling-the-drain final days of the titular drug-addicted and doomed Nazi-era film star. It feels loosely inspired by Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950) (Veronika’s demented melancholy evokes both Norma Desmond and Blanche DuBois) and is based on the true story of German actress Sybille Schmitz (1909 – 1955). The late Rosel Zech (1940 - 2011) is astonishing in the tragic lead role, especially in the musical sequence where she evokes Marlene Dietrich, throatily warbling the Dean Martin standard "Memories Are Made of This." In conclusion: If you must take a fatal overdose of pills, you might as well do it in a beautifully stark and minimalist all-white Art Deco room. And as John Waters puts it, “Seeing a Fassbinder retrospective is better than drugs, liquor and sex put together”.

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Veronika Voss, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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48 victory ace and Pour le Mérite (Blue Max) holder Leutnant Werner Voss, a truly sensational pilot and Jastaführer of Jasta 10 in front of his famously decorated Fokker F.I triplane (103/17). This was one of two pre-production models, the other being given to Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron. Voss was killed in this aircraft during the greatest dog fight of the war against seven British planes at the same time. He is not wearing his Blue Max in this photo/ For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

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Flying circus (+others)- little dark age

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Voss with his painted Albatros D.III

Note: the swastika was a sign for luck and had nothing to do with its later meaning.

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1917 09 23 Last dance of the hussar - Russell Smith

note: this is an old painting when there was the interpretation that the triplane had a yellow cowling

Leutnant der Reserve Werner Voss, from Krefeld, Germany, was Germany’s 4th highest ranking ace of World War 1. With 48 kills to his credit he is still considered by many to be the greatest pilot of that war, having skills that even surpassed Manfred von Richthofen, the “Red Baron”. On September 23, 1917 he became involved in what is known to be one of the greatest dogfights of World War 1. While out on patrol he came across a flight of six British SE5’s from 56 Squadron, each flown by a famous ace. Among the RFC pilots involved in the encounter was British ace James McCudden, who reported: “I now got a good opportunity as he was coming towards me nose on, and slightly underneath, and had apparently not seen me. I dropped my nose, got him well in my sight and pressed both triggers. As soon as I fired up came his nose at me, and I heard clack-clack-clack-clack, as his bullets passed close to me and through my wings. I particularly noticed his red-yellow flashes from his parallel Spandau guns. As he flashed by me I caught a glimpse of a black head in the triplane with no hat on at all.” For over ten minutes Voss singlehandedly fought the aces without retreating. He inflicted considerable damage on all five aircraft before his own engine finally seized and he was sent plummeting to the ground by Lt. Arthur Rhys-Davids. Major James McCudden, who was also involved in the fight, said of him later, “His flying was wonderful, his courage magnificent and in my own opinion he is the bravest German airman whom it has been my privilege to see fight.”  Leutnant Werner Voss was just 20 years old.

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A group photo of Jasta 2 "Boelcke" around 1917 when Otto Bernert was leader . You can see they had two guests from Austria-Hungary's K.u.K:-)

Naming the ones I only recognise ,,, if anybody else recognises anyone , please do let me know:)

Friedrich "Fritz" Kempf and Hermann Frommherz

(This photo actually comes from the site dedicated to Fritz Kempf ! I will put the link somewhere below so you could pay a visit to it:-)

Otto Bernert and Werner Voss

Georg Zeumer and Karl Bodenschatz

Raoul Stojsavlesevic

Franz Pernet

Robert Strey

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Rosel Zech, July 7, 1940 – August 31, 2011.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss (1982).