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GERMAN AND
AUSTRIAN AVIATION
OF WORLD WAR I
A PICTORIAL CHRONICLE OF THE AIRMEN AND
AIRCRAFT THAT FORGED GERMAN AIRPOWER
GERMAN AND
AUSTRIAN AVIATION
OF WORLD WAR I
A PICTORIAL CHRONICLE OF THE AIRMEN AND
AIRCRAFT THAT FORGED GERMAN AIRPOWER
HUGH W. COWIN
First published in Great Britain in 2000 by Osprey Publishing Acknowledgements
Elms Court, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LP, UK I am, as usual, indebted to a small band of loyal supporters who have
Email: ******@ospreypublishing. com provided both moral and material support to sustain me while
producing this work: they are Norman R. Bartlett, Andy Bunce of
© 2000 Osprey Publishing Limited British Aerospace Systems, John Edwards and Peter Elliott of the RAF
© 2000 text + captions Hugh W. Cowin Museum, Ray Funnell, Mike Hooks, Philip Jarrett, Teddy Nevill ofTRH
Pictures and Andrew Siddons of Rolls-Royce. A very large vote of
All rights reserved. Apart from Any fair dealing for the purpose of private thanks must also go to the many unknown and unsung German and
study research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright, Design Austrian World War I photographers, both military and civilian, with-
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in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, it has. Wherever possible picture sources are identified in brackets at
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Publisher
Front cover, above left Rumpler C I. Below left Friedrichshafen G
ISBN I 84176 069 2 III. Right Friedrich Ritter von Roth. (All Cowin Collection). Rear
cover Junkers C I I. (Junkers).
Editor: Shaun Barrington
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