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oswald with his brother wilhelm<3

bald

HE LOOKS SO SAD STOP

just doin some bullshit

Manfred mentioned ?!?!?!?!

Bro got shy around manni

smug ass

me when people say that immelmann died in a fight but he actually crashed because a piece of his propeller broke off

me drawing boelckthofen

plen

so pround of richthofen<33

"Manfred, his faithful student and friend flew all the way down with him until oswald crashed."

oh SHIT MY WING

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On this day, in 1891, Hauptmann Oswald Boelcke was born ! Cant belive that its been 135 years...

To commemorate this day, i decided to try and recreate the wreath that the British Royal Air Corps dropped on his grave.

Heres what it looked like

And now for some photos !

Our birthday boy eating cake

Pictures of young Oswald ! He is about 5 on the left and 19 on the right.

And a personal favourite of mine- Ossi (on the left) with a friend (?) :3

Its this areia right here ! When he went to see it live, the singer changed up one of the verses and made it about Boelcke himself

When you translate it to german it actually fits the song very well. This was also the last song he ever listened to before his death.

" Vater, Mutter, Schwestern, Brüder, Hab' ich auf der Welt nicht mehr, Kehrt' ich auch zur Heimat wieder, Fänd' ich alles öd und leer, Ja, wenn nur noch eins am Leben! "

Celebrating the Christmas truce of 1914 is a tradition in our home. Neither Lawrence nor I are religious, so the holiday does not mean much to us in the spiritual sense, but the truce and everything wonderful in humanity that it represents means a great deal around here. Last year I printed WWI Christmas cards from as many different countries as I could find and hung them all in garlands next to each other around the house - German and English, French, Canadian, Italian, Russian. We usually wrap our gifts to look like packages sent to the front and watch Joyeux Noël.

So for the coming season, I wanted to draw this. Time completely got away from me in terms of making greeting cards for Halloween, so I wanted to get as much of a head start on Christmas as possible. Closer to the holidays, I’ll be printing these up and putting them up for sale on Etsy. 

I know that’s a rather clean looking trench and field there, and I know most of the Christmas truce was spent finding and burying each other’s dead across No Man’s Land… But I decided to refrain from drawing torn up limbs and blood-stained churned up snow in a Christmas card. 

Idk at this rate