Capt. Duncan Grinnell-Milne's SE5a C'1149
in post-armistice livery.

Color Section

Page 399.
'Looking For Trouble.' Captain J.T.B. McCudden and Lt. A.P.F. Rhys Davids on patrol over the Ypres Salient in the autumn of 1917.

Page 400.
Lt. Gerald Constable Maxwell's SE5 A'4863. London Colney, April 1917.

Page 401.
SE5 A'8918. Estrée Blanche July 1917. Captain Edric Broadberry was shot down and wounded while flying this SE5 on July 12, 1917. The crocodile markings were the work of his engine mechanic, Len Baker.

Page 402. Top to Bottom.
SE5a B'514. Estrée Blanche, August 1917. Richard Leighton was shot down and taken POW in this SE5a on August 17, 1917. Leighton's personal marking was, coincidentally, carried in the same position as the later squadron marking of a white band immediately in front of the tailplane, which was not carried until September 25, 1917.
SE5a, C'1086. Captain Ken Junor's 'Bubbly Kid II.' Junor was flying this aircraft when shot down and killed on April 25, 1918.
SE5a C'6351. 'Ole Bill,' marked under the headrest, was the personal marking of Lt. Barclay McPherson.
SE5a C'1149, marked 'Schweinhund,' was flown by Captain Duncan Grinnell-Milne. After hostilities Grinnell-Milne had the fuselage and fin of the SE5a painted bright red and it still carried this colour when he flew it for the last time, to Le Hameau on January 23, 1919.

Page 403.
Captain James Thomas Byford McCudden flew SE5a B'4891 from December 3, 1917 until he left the squadron in March 1918. Until January 12/13, 1918 B'4891 carried the letter 'G' as a Flight marking, marked in white, both on the top starboard wing and on the underside of the bottom starboard wing. In the original photographs of B'4891 the remains of the white 'G' on the underside of the bottom starboard wing can still be seen under the new marking of the number '6.' The famous red spinner, taken from an LVG which McCudden had shot down in November 1917, was fitted when the letter 'G' was changed to '6.'

Page 404.
Captain Hank Burden's SE5a C'1096. Burden wrote home describing the markings of his SE5 (see illustration on page 305) later adding 'Maybe' and 'Maybe II' to the noses of his SE5as above the St. Christopher medal.

Page 405. Top to Bottom.
SE5a A'4853, 'C2.' Flown by Lt. David Stanley 'Pud' Wilkinson. Estrée Blanche, late July 1917.
SE5a B628, '4.' This SE5a was flown by Captain William Roy Irwin.
SE5a C8866, 'C.' Lt. Laurence Grant Bowen was killed in action in this SE5a on Sept. 15, 1918.
SE5a E.5808, 'Z.' This SE5a, flown by Lt. William Ewart Clarkson, is shown as it appeared when flown to Le Hameau at the end of hostilities.

Page 406.
Fokker F.I 103/17. This Fokker Triplane was flown by Ltn. Werner Voss, the Staffelführer of Jasta 10, in his epic combat with 56 Squadron on the evening of Sept. 23, 1917. Alex Imrie, noted authority on the Luftstreitkräfte, is of the opinion that, by this date, the cowling would have been painted chrome yellow, the Jasta 10 identification colour. The fearsome 'face' painted on the cowling was based on the decoration of Japanese kites, popular with the children of Krefeld, the birthplace of Werner Voss.