Souvenir hunting
"Pilots of 3 Squadron AFC based at the airfield at Poulainville stand beside the wreck of Richthofen's machine which is being stripped of bits and piexes as sou...
The Balkenkreuze taken from the left side of the same Fokker Triplane which currently resides in the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto, given to them by Captain Roy Brown. The bare fabric in the centre shows the signature of 209 Squadron pilots in April 1918. (picture source: Under the guns of the Red Baron, Norman Franks, Hal Giblin and Nigel McCrery)
"Pilots of 3 Squadron AFC based at the airfield at Poulainville stand beside the wreck of Richthofen's machine which is being stripped of bits and piexes as sou...