From the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/w...an-airmen.html
From the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/w...an-airmen.html
Perhaps they decided to drink it, blame it on you and claim the insurance........
I,am with SNOPPY! make mine ROOTBEER! <great photos!>
Fantastic images, showing that all young men at war engage in similar off duty activities, even on the other side of the wire.
I had wondered; you read so much of RFC/RNAS pilots having rousing parties night after night, but little of the same from the Germans.
No surprise, of course.
Thanks Steve.
Karl
SHOCKER! Young German airmen were just like their Allied adversaries! Who could have thought such a thing!
Best to drink today because tomorrow you may be dead
"live for today, tomorrow we die"
Let me to toast the same joie de vivre of those young faces regardless of nationality
:fok:
Attilio
Great to see these pics! I am very interested in what the "day to day" lives of the pilots would have been like when not flying.
Yes common bonds in their attitudes. We must remember many of these pilots were only 18 to 20 years old & youthful exuberance would show itself.
How many of you have watched the BBC Wings episode where Capt Triggers chaps entertain their 2 German captors & nearly allow them to escape?
Great idea of what games the British lads got up to when partying!
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