Feldflieger Abteilung
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Feldflieger Abteilung was the title of the pioneering field aviation units of Die Fliegertruppen des deutschen Kaiserreiches formed in 1912, which became the Luftstreitkräfte on 8 October 1916, during
A Fokker E.II 35/15 from Feldflieger Abteilung 14, on the Eastern Front, preparing to land.
Otto Parschau
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Leutnant Otto Parschau was a German World War I flying ace and recipient of the Pour le Mérite, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, and Iron Cross, First Class. He was noted as one of the pre-eminent a
Feldflieger Abteilung
…Hans Joachim Buddecke, Ernst Freiherr von Althaus, Rudolf Berthold 48 Mülhausen Kurt Wintgens 62 La Brayelle (Douai) Oswald Boelcke, Max Immelmann, Otto Parschau Footnotes References Cowin, H. W. (2000). German and Austrian Aviation of World War I. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-069-2. Franks, Norman; Bailey…
Photo of Leutnant Otto Parschau just after earning the Pour le Mérite
Close-up photo of Otto Parschau's "green machine", armed with a synchronized Parabellum MG14 machine gun in May 1915, essentially the Fokker Eindecker "prototype".
Otto Parschau's Fokker M.5K/MG (Fokker factory no. "191") with IdFlieg serial E.1/15, the very first series-built Fokker Eindecker ever produced, shown with "lowered" wing mount location.