Colonel Oswald Bölcke’s Last Picture

CONTENTS

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]
Among His Comrades[144]
German Marine Aviators on a
Field Near the North Sea		[145]
Ready for the Start[160]
Bölcke and His Brother Max in
France (August, 1916)		[161]
One of His Last Victims[182]
Starting on His Last Ride, October
28, 1916—5 p. m.		[183]