Homeward Bound : Painting by Alfred Daguet

[Zoe Brain]

[Jager]

Interesting piece; certainly brings out the feelings of the morning after.
Karl

[Archidamus]

Very atmospheric Zoe - thanks for posting

[flash]

Very atmospheric images Zoe - looks like they took a bit of a pasting !

[gully_raker]

Good one Zoe! They certainly copped a lot of Flak.

[matt56]

What cool looking Voisins (I think?) - nice to see a flight of them returning home! The battle damage is striking - it would be great to try modeling some of that sometime in 1/144 scale.

Thanks for posting this and the smaller picture - I love seeing art from the time period (as these seem they might be...)

All the best,
Matt

[Naharaht]

It cetainly makes you conscious of the frailty of those machines and the courage of the French pilots, who flew them on raids night after night. Thank you, Zoe.

[Stumptonian]

All those perforations in an already fragile craft.

Great pics - thanks for sharing.

[Zoe Brain]

What cool looking Voisins (I think?)
Matt

Voisin 10s in fact. The lower picture shows Voisin 8s. Different engine, different colour scheme, otherwise dimensionally identical.

This one's being produced this week.

[Jager]

Curious: did the Germans have any nightfighters in action in WW1? Or the French, for that matter?
We know about the Home defense ones in Britain, and the 1918 squadron(s) on the Western front, at least behind the British lines.
Karl

[matt56]

The Osprey Publications book Fokker DVII Aces of World War I, Part 2 mentions Jasta 73 being "a premier nightfighting unit, flying nocturnal intercept missions against French Voisin bombers"(76), most of which seemed to occur in August, September, and October of 1918. Looks like they were part of Jagdgruppe 1 at that time.

All the best,
Matt