AN AVIATOR’S
FIELD BOOK

Being the Field Reports of Oswald Bölcke,
from August 1, 1914, to October 28, 1916

Translated from the German by

ROBERT REYNOLD HIRSCH, M.E.

With a Foreword by

JOSEPH E. RIDDER, M.E.

1917
NATIONAL MILITARY PUBLISHING CO.
1919 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

Colonel Oswald Bölcke’s Last Picture

FOREWORD	11
INTRODUCTION	16
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR TO THE FIRST VICTORY	31
PILOT OF A BATTLEPLANE	59
LEAVE OF ABSENCE	131
TO THE FORTIETH VICTORY	180

ILLUSTRATIONS

	FACING PAGE
Colonel Oswald Bölcke’s Last Picture	Frontispiece
After His First Victory	32
The Enemy’s Aeroplane in Ruins	33
The Master-Flier and His Men	64
Bölcke and His Brother Wilhelm, September, 1914	65
Donning His Flying Dress	96
An Aviator Bombarded with Shrapnel	97< ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!