Leutnant Josef Jacobs by Ivan Berryman. (GL) NRG1282 Alongside is the portrait of

Alongside is the portrait of AJ-M pilot Flt Lt J V Hopgood

part of the mixed unit Schlachtgeschwader

Lancasters - B1 R5689 VN-N 50th Squadron RAF leads a gaggle of Lancs as they gain altitude to form up over the English coast

Fl Lt Eric Atkins DFC(bar) KW(bar) and his navigator Fl Lt Majer can be seen exiting the area to reform on the other 3 Mosquitoes who have already finished their bombing run

Leutnant Josef Jacobs by Ivan Berryman. (GL) NRG1282 Alongside is the portrait ofDHM1584GL. Leutnant Josef Jacobs by Ivan Berryman. Germays greatest exponent of the Fokker Dr1 Triplane, Leutnant Josef Jacobs is depicted chatting with colleagues of Jasta 7 before a sortie in the spring of 1918. His black Triplane became well known to allied pilots, not least because of his formidable kill rate. By the end of the war, still aged just 24, Jacobs had claimed 48 enemy aircraft destroyed. The unusual practice of applying the black cross