Oswald Boelcke; Photograph; signed envelope (Stock No 1001)
An envelope addressed in
Boelcke’s own hand to Fraulein Anna Boelcke,
Brandenburg, Brelowerstrasse 7 / Feldpost. Postmarked Frankfurt, Nov. 29, 1915.
Return name and address
on verso in his hand as well.
Also a sepia tint photograph issued posthumously showing
Oswald
Boelcke in head and shoulders profile wearing his ‘Pour le Merité’
entitled
Fliegerhauptmann Boelcke, lezte Aufnahme. (Liersch 7761).
Boelcke,
with Max Immelmann, developed the German
technique of air combat. It
was they who first discovered some of the crucial tenets of air fighting.
Both were killed in 1916.
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