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See: news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19711129&... and news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19711129&...

Remnants of a B-29 assigned to the 504th BG which crash-landed on Iwo Jima, 25 April 1945.

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Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_in_World_War_I#The_dawn_of... says "The first aircraft brought down by another was an Austrian reconnaissance rammed on 8 September 1914, by Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov in Galicia in the Eastern Front (both planes crashed as the result of the attack killing all occupants)." See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_ramming for more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Nesterov Gives August 25 1914 as the date. I wonder if this could be that plane or another brought down by ramming. It certainly looks to have been wrecked, not just "captured." Nesterov's brother was killed a few weeks later. "August 26, 1914. Plane crash-Moran's solo, the pilot Captain Nesterov PN In aerial combat, without any weapons at all, a reconnaissance plane rammed the enemy Albatross. The pilot on the ground in a hurry forgot to bind to a chair at the time of the collision of the plane fell and broke on impact with the ground 3.5 km west of d.Lipino near Dubna. It was the first aerial ramming in the world. October 8, 1914. Plane crash Moran, pilot Nesterov, MN When a training flight lost speed and fell into a spin and collided with the ground near Gatchina, killing the pilot. The pilot attempted to perform maneuvers similar to modern combat turn. Nesterov, MN - The younger brother of the famous Russian pilot Nesterov PN" Googles' translation of entries from 76.163.106.187/index.php?PHPSESSID=cbb6d8fbc80ec756bbfc2c... a Russian site about plane crashes.

@blor: It certainly looks like the White Ensign of Britain's Royal Navy to me. There was no Royal Air Force until April 1918. Before that the Army and Navy had their own flying units: See, for example, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Air_Service "The Royal Naval Air Service or RNAS was the air arm of the Royal Navy until near the end of the First World War, when it merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form a new service (the first of its kind in the world), the Royal Air Force. The RNAS came under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department." But that does not explain why a photo captioned "Captured Russian Aeroplane" and apparently processed in Berlin (nearer the Eastern Front) would show a British flag!

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