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Title: An Aviator's Field Book
Being the field reports of Oswald Boelcke, from August 1,
1914 to October 28, 1916

Author: Oswald Boelcke

Translator: Robert Reynold Hirsch

Release Date: September 17, 2009 [EBook #30011]

Language: English

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AN AVIATOR'S
FIELD BOOK

_Being the Field Reports of Oswald Boelcke,
from August 1, 1914, to October 28, 1916_

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY
ROBERT REYNOLD HIRSCH, M.E.

WITH A FOREWORD BY

JOSEPH E. RIDDER, M.E.

1917
NATIONAL MILITARY PUBLISHING CO.
1919 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

[Illustration: COLONEL OSWALD BOeLCKE'S LAST PICTURE]

ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING
PAGE

Colonel Oswald Boelcke's Last Picture _Frontispiece_

After His First Victory 32

The Enemy's Aeroplane in Ruins 33

The Master-Flier and His Men 64

Boelcke and His Brother Wilhelm,
September, 1914 65

Donning His Flying Dress 96

An Aviator Bombarded with
Shrapnel 97

Among His Comrades 144

German Marine Aviators on a
Field Near the North Sea 145

Ready for the Start 160

Boelcke and His Brother Max in
France (August, 1916) 161

One of His Last Victims 182

Starting on His Last Ride, October
28, 1916--5 P. M. 183

FOREWORD

BY JOSEPH E. RIDDER

An unassuming book, still one of those which grip the reader from
beginning to end. When the au