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Oswald Bölcke WWI Imperial Pilot Ace Death Card, 1916-10-28

 Item — Box 2: Series 1000.171.2 [Barcode: 000022793065], Page: 50, item: 1
Identifier: 1000.171.2.78
Scope and Contents

WWI Imperial German pilot ace card by Hofphot J. Muller, Dessau. The image was taken shortly before his death and clearly shows the strain of combat exhibited in his face. He is dressed in his service uniform and wearing his Order Pour le Mérite (The Blue Max). Through the second button hole are his ribbons for the House Order of Hohenzollern and the Iron Cross and the Iron Cross. An Iron Cross first class is pinned on he lower left breast.

Dates: 1916-10-28

Rolling balloon in preparation to return home, 1919

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Identifier: 2001.073.1.021
Scope and Contents

Photograph of soldiers with the 1st or 2nd Balloon Company rolling balloon in preparation to return home. This photograph is one of a series showing soldiers working with an observation balloon. Title taken from description on back.

Dates: 1919

Rolling balloon. Trier, Germany, 1919

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Identifier: 2001.073.1.023
Scope and Contents

Photograph of soldiers with the 1st or 2nd Balloon Company rolling a deflated observation balloon. This photograph is one of a series showing soldiers working with an observation balloon. Title taken from description on back.

Dates: 1919

Rolling deflated observation balloon, Germany, 1919

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Identifier: 2001.073.1.022
Scope and Contents

Photograph of soldiers with the 1st or 2nd Balloon Company rolling a deflated observation balloon. This photograph is one of a series showing soldiers working with an observation balloon. Title taken from description on back.

Dates: 1919

Spreading Balloon preparing to inflate, 1919

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Identifier: 2001.073.1.025
Scope and Contents

Photograph of soldiers with either the 1st or 2nd Balloon Company spreading an observation balloon on the gronnd with preparation to inflate. This photograph is one of a series showing soldiers working with an observation balloon. Title taken from description on back.

Dates: 1919

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Special Collections -- Photographs -- World War, 1914-1918. 72
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Trier (Germany). 34
United States. Army. Air Service. Balloon Company, 2nd. 29