January 31, 1917

A cracked wing

A cracked wing

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It came at a time when the German fighter force was starting to have problems with the Albatros D.II. His own machine had suffered a cracked wing the previous day, so that on 1 February he began flying a Halberstadt Scout and would do so for some weeks.

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