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Early Aviation
Discuss World War I and the early years of aviation thru 1934.
Question on 2 Alb DIII's
redalb2253
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Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 10:06 AM UTC
The early DIII of Allmenroder and Wolf's plum DIII either one with centered radiator I just don;t have the time to do to much research due to working 2 jobs but I want to enter one in the aces campaign, any help will be great.

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Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 10:23 AM UTC
I'll check later tonight.
redalb2253
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Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 12:29 PM UTC
Thank's Stephen.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 01:47 PM UTC
The first portion of the initial production series was Alb. D.III 1910/16 -2200/16 . 390 airframes with entralized radiators. The next portion had offset radiators 2201/16 - 2309/16. 108 airframes.

On March 6, 1917 Ltn. Eddy Lübbert of Jasta 11 (who flew the quartered yellow and blue Alb. D.III) took pen in hand to describle the markings of some of the other Jasta 11 members machines.

Wolff flew a machine that was partially plum purple. I believe that only half of the fuselage from the spine to and inclusive of the tail unit was purple. The rest was factory finish. The serial was marked on the pilot's left side of the vertical fin and was D.2099/16. This machine came to a hard end when Wolff crash landed in a train yard. Upon landing if you can call it that, the machine went nose over and stuck with the tail straight up on a rail road embankment.

Allmenröder's was "field gray" which makes sense in a large way. First this was the general colour of German uniforms. Since pilots were given state awards for their heroism often the Iron Cross on the fuselage was included in the personal markings. And the award ribbon was usually nearby the fuselage iron cross represented by a series of bands. Possibly he was preparing for the day when he could display an awards bar of sorts. Just speculation. It was also probably a machine from the first production.

redalb2253
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Posted: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 06:50 AM UTC
Thank's for the help Stephen looks like either one would work.
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