Austro-hungarian Albatros D.III (Oef) fighters

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 53.37

Flik 24, 1917-18, Pergine ,flown by Zgsf.Karl Bedö, who reached his first victory in this plane. The airplane was also used by other aces of  Luftfahrtruppe Lt. Jozsef Kiss (19 z.) and  Lt.Jozef Friedrich (7 z.) A red marking is  Flik 48

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 53.38

Flik 24, summer 1917, Pergine    used by   Fw.Wenzel Schwarz in july and by Lt.Jozef Friedrich from august to september 1917.

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 53.50

Flik 27, spring 1918, Pergine  ,flown by Fw.Jan Škvor. This plane later served with Flik 17 in late 1917 , flown by Fw.Alfons Běhounek (4 z.)

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 153.15

Flik 55J, september 1917   Zgsf.Julius Arigi -austro-hungarian ace with 32 victories, scored his 13th victory with this plane.

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 153.17

Flik 55J, autumn 1917    Stfw.Jozef Kiss scored his 8th and  9th victory with this plane. It was also used by Lt.Egbert Lupfer (4 v.) a Fw.Franz Lahner (6 v.)

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 153.24

Flik 38, october 1917, Bukovina  flown by Oblt.Hans Fischer.

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 153.32

Flik 61J, spring 1918    When serving with Flik 19D the plane has received a red stripe with white borders on the fuselage.After being transfered to Flik 61J, the marking was completed with red stripes on wings and on the tail.

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 153.42

Flik 42J, summer 1917    flown by an ace with  8 victories Stfw.Ferdinand Udvardy

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 153.44

Flik 42J, autumn 1917   used by A-H ace Lt.Franz Gräser (18.v) He was a second highest scoring ace on Albatros (Oef.) fighters.

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 153.80

Flik 55J, winter 1917   flown Zgsf.Julius Arigi who scored 3 victories with this airplane. Later, in july 1918, a plane was destroyed in a crash when flown by Fw.Alois Lehmann.

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 153.198

Flik 3J, june 1918   used by Oblt.Friedrich Navratil, who won a first victory of his unit on this plane. After a crash and reparation in august, the aircraft was flown by Stfw.Otto Forster and Kpl.August Korkisch.

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 153.209

Portobuffe, Italy, june 1918, flown by a commander of Flik 41J Godwin Brumowski, a highest scoring austro-hungarian ace with 35 victories. 20. 6. 1918 he scored his last victory when flying with this aircraft.

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 153.238

Flik 63J, Portobuffe, 1918  used by Fw.Johann Nemeth

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 253.24

Flik 51J, 1918   A personal aircraft of Oblt. Franza Rudorfera (11 v.), also used by Zgsf.Eugen Bönsch and Oblt.Benno Fiala-3rd highest scoring A-H ace with 28 victories

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 253.32

Flik 63J, 1918  flown by Zgsf.Rudolf Nemetz. On   23rd september 1918 the airplane was destroyed by a whirlwind.

 
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Albatros D.III (Oef) 253.???

An acrobatic airplane owned after the war by F. Zuzmanovi. The plane was destroyed, when its pilot Karl Keizar (1.v) did not manage to recover a spin and crashed. 5 days later he died on his wounds.

 
 

References:

L+K 15-19/1991

HPM 8/92

P.A.Tesař: Albatros D.II & D.III Oeffag, JaPo, 1998