WORLD WAR I DOG FIGHTING PHOTOGRAPHS

Finding Aid

Size: 0.25 linear feet

Literary rights:
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Restrictions: None

Content note:
These celebrated photographs were first produced in the anonymous autobiography of an RAF officer in the 1930s and are more probably "faked" according to The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War I, Vol.7, pages 2228-29. The author claimed that they were taken with a camera fitted to his aircraft cabane struts and operated automatically each time the machine gun trigger was pressed. Fact or fiction, these pictures give a good impression of what First World War air fighting must have been like. The Cockburn-Lange Collection contains fifty-seven of these original photographs whereas we have eleven prints from an unknown printed source.

Acquisition: Source unknown

Processed by: LTM, 8-26-1987; JEF, 2-3-1998