1918 Birds of a Different Feather - Steve Anderson.
1916 Dux-Nieuport 11 19 KAO 1 BAG N.M.Serikov - Maksim Bylkin.
1917 Strutting Peacocks - Leo Stevenson.
1918 SPAD XIII SPA88 Marcel Coadou - Lionel Labeyrie
1917 Desperate maneuvers - Russell Smith
In the last week of August 1917 there was little aerial activity due to the bad weather. For this reason, Otto Fuchs made use of an afternoon free from rain and storm for an orientation flight in the area behind the front with the pilots newly transferred to the Staffel, Lt. Rudolf von der Horst and Lt. Kurt Katzenstein, during which he flew his "red F". He reported regarding this orientation flight: When we had reached flight altitude it became more and more unpleasant. Heavy gusts of wind and an ever darkening sky heralded a strong summer storm. I became concerned about my two inexperienced pilots and decided to leave the altitude of about 3000 meters and to return to Phalempin in a descending flight. Suddenly the black layer of clouds tore open, rays of sunlight shortly appeared, and I spotted a group of English fighter planes above us, who were apparently likewise on the way home due to the storm. From their superior position the Englishmen immediately went over to the attack and dove down upon us. Since I was flying higher than the two novices as protection, I was the first to be attacked by two Englishmen, and immediately let myself spin down. While the bank of clouds approached threateningly, I was forced down lower and lower by my pursuers. I attempted to evade my pursuers while under constant fire, finally at the height of the tree tops. Again and again strong gusts of wind shifted my Albatros over several meters, so that I was afraid of ramming into a tree or a building. My machine had already been hit several times, when suddenly a hazy wall of rain appeared before me. This was my salvation: I flew right into the wall of rain and immediately pulled the stick upwards in order not to crash into a tower or a tree. In the heavy rain shower I spotted a meadow below me and began to land. While doing so, my Albatros was pretty well wrecked.When Otto Fuchs returned to Phalempin, soaked through and covered in mud, he discovered to his relief that his two comrades had also survived the air combat unharmed. Kurt Katzenstein had landed smoothly on the airfield with a few hits in his machine, while Rudolf von der Horst had been forced to make an emergency landing in his Albatros D.V with a shot-up engine. After this experience, Otto Fuchs decided never again to use a letter as his personal marking.
Russell Smith