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Re: Fokker E.III 37/15
Nick
Yes of course it is E.III 37/15. You are quite right!
We are not allowed to see the flip side of the photo, but it would not surprise me if it is one of those turned into a post card.
No need to turn the photo into a negative, the date Nov 1916 is perfectly readable as it is. The only thing it suggests is that the photo was signed during that month by someone whose name I cannot read.
I also have Josef Scott's two volumes and it is perfectly clear that the Germans collected most E.II and E.IIIs together under one designation, E.III, probably during the spring of 1916 (between April and June the number dropped from 13 to 4). Why a few frontline E.II still lingered on as E.II all through the remaining year of 1916 is a puzzle.
Two observations of the photo though. The pilot standing in the cockpit does not look like Immelmann and (if we don't believe the photo is very much earlier) Max Immelmann was already dead (18 June 1916). Possibly the aircraft here belonged to some KeK unit, but that is a bit over my head. A guess really....
Cheers
Stig
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