Several years ago, the theory was forwarded that the personal marking applied to one of Josef Jacobs Fokker Dr.I was the "God of the North Wind (Borealis), which prompted artists to create color profiles presenting a pale face blowing wind. I was very surprised when I first heard about the "God of the north wind" theory. This theory clearly contradicted everything that Josef Jacobs personally told me: He actually used a fire-spitting devil's head as a personal marking. This statement is also backed up by his combat reports. In his combat report dated 9 October 1918 he described the personal emblem on his Fokker Dr.I clearly as "Teufelkopf" (devil's head). Also, in a letter to aviation historian Egon Krüger on 21.06.1968 he explained the marking on his Fokker Dr.I: ... "(I had) at the Triplane in the last month of the war a fire-spitting devil".
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