WWI Movies

**Baxter** · 04-24-2021 16:15

From combatace.com In German but very good footage.

https://www.deutsche-digitale-biblio...L3QHMNHFE3KSON

**gully_raker** · 04-24-2021 21:56

Great find Gary!

**flash** · 04-27-2021 12:11

Great find Gary - nice piece of filming of and from the Jasta 9 machines. They look like Alb D.I's - the crossed swords are in red & belong to Vzfw Kohler's machine, I'm not sure but the check motif might belong to Kurt Student's who commanded the unit until March 1918.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdstaffel_9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Student
This is the header for the film:
Part of the airfield of Jasta 9; Orders issued by the squadron leader; Start of the "Albatros CV" for enemy flight; Aerial photography of localities; Encounter with captive balloons; Dogfight with enemy biplane and crash; "Albatros CV" lands next to the burning aircraft wreck; Return of the fighters; Aviator grave with propeller as a grave cross for Wilhelm Schlolaut, fallen on November 12th, 1916; Aerial recordings from the front area. 2nd part field gun firing on enemy positions; Explosion in the area and occupation of the explosive funnel by storm troops; Use of hand grenades against enemy foxholes; storm troop taking cover in open terrain; Breakthrough through hostile wire obstacle; Use of flamethrowers; three German soldiers freed from captivity; long train with French prisoners; German troops

**RJG173** · 04-27-2021 16:28

I wonder what the two-engine airplane is at 2:14 in the film?

**flash** · 04-28-2021 00:41

Looks like it has two engine nacelles & the top plane is much bigger than the lower one so should be identifiable.

**Flying Helmut** · 04-28-2021 02:56

Originally Posted by flash

Great find Gary - nice piece of filming of and from the Jasta 9 machines. They look like Alb D.I's - the crossed swords are in red & belong to Vzfw Kohler's machine, I'm not sure but the check motif might belong to Kurt Student's who commanded the unit until March 1918.

The aircraft are Albatros D.IIs; unusually fitted with mudguards over the wheels. Kohler's is an LVG-built machine (distinctive wing camo visible when viewed from behind, taking off, no Serial Number on the fin).

Kohler's crossed scimitars are sometimes rendered in red and sometimes in black on reconstruction profiles; Cal Faber's "Aviation Wings" decal sheet for Albatros D.II Part 1 has them in black (but my Jasta 2 research has highlighted many mistakes on these sheets

).
Kurt Student's check motif was in red and white.

**Flying Helmut** · 04-28-2021 02:59

Originally Posted by RJG173

I wonder what the two-engine airplane is at 2:14 in the film?

It looks like a Caudron G4 to me - used later on in the "dogfight" footage.

The whole thing appears to have been staged for the camera; the fighters taking off, followed by the "victim".
The flaming wreckage crashing to earth is unrecognisable as an aeroplane, and the burning wreckage on the ground looks too small to be the Caudron (which, presumably, subsequently flew back to the airfield, its German pilot not having a parachute!).