• joining Feldflieger Abteilung 47 performing aerial reconnaissance as an Unteroffizier in late 1914. He then transferred to Flieger-Abteilung (Artillerie)...
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    cockpit. Near the end of May 1915, while it was based at Douai with Feldflieger Abteilung 62, the Fokker factory outfitted Parschau's aircraft with the first...
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    he connived his way into joining his older brother Wilhelm at Feldflieger Abteilung 13 (Field Flyer Detachment 13). On 1 September, the aircrew of Boelcke...
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    observer on reconnaissance missions over the Eastern Front with Feldflieger Abteilung 69 ("No. 69 Flying Squadron"). In August 1915, he was transferred...
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    He started flying missions immediately. Müller was assigned to Feldflieger Abteilung 1b on 2 August 1914. When the war broke out, Müller flew several...
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    nonexistent. Nevertheless, on 10 May 1915, while flying as an observer in Feldflieger Abteilung 40 (FFA 40), Frankl used a carbine to shoot down a French Voisin...
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    turned down. Later that year, Göring flew as Loerzer's observer in Feldflieger Abteilung 25 (FFA 25); Göring had informally transferred himself. He was discovered...
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    A small number of production machines were supplied to various Feldflieger Abteilung to supplement supplies of the Fokker and Pfalz monoplane fighters...
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    Marine Jagdgruppe Flandern composed of: Marine Feld Jasta I Marine Feldflieger Abteilung II After the end of World War I, the bulk of the navy's modern ships...
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    to have occurred on 1 July 1915 when Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of Feldflieger Abteilung 6b, flying the Parabellum-armed Fokker M.5K/MG aircraft "E.5/15"...
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