A German Air Force DIII Albatros Scout aircraft, D636/17, flown by Oberleutnant Gustav Adolf ...

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Accession Number J02259
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Ottoman Empire: Palestine, Weli Sheikh Nuran
Date made 10 October 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

A German Air Force DIII Albatros Scout aircraft, D636/17, flown by Oberleutnant Gustav Adolf Dittmar of Fliegerabteilung 300 squadron. The aircraft had been shot down, practically intact, into AIF Light Horse lines near Beersheba by a Bristol fighter aircraft flown by Lieutenant R Steele a Canadian pilot with No 111 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. No 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, members recovered the machine and moved it to their airfield where repairs, including a bullet holed radiator, were carried out returning it to flying condition. The aircraft is at the aerodrome at Sheikh Nuran.