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According to Earthlore, the Notre Dame was "[s]lightly damaged by shelling in 1914", however "the cathedral survived both World wars virtually intact." www.elore.com/el04ho01.html

A special dispatch to the New York Times recounting a deadly air raid that killed three and injured 14 in Paris on October 12, 1914, including setting the roof of Notre Dame on fire. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9802EED8143EE0... A short account in the New York times, dated October 13, 1914, claiming that French aviators had routed the German airmen over Paris that day and that "Notre Dame little damaged". query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A07E4DA1438E0...

Taubes (Doves) were designed and built in Germany and Austro-hungary by a lot of factories. As they all shared somewhat the basic form of a Taube as designed and patented by the first designer Igo Etrich (an Austro-hungarian) through time they became generally knowns as Taubes. This picture shows an advanced one example only Taube designed by Halberstadt in 1914. This designed used the patented wooden fuselage construction of the German aircraft designer Hans Röver (1890-1917). The streamlined design of the fuselage - although heavy - resulted in the highest top speed for a Taube, about 128 km/hr. The machine was never acquired by the German Army and remained a prototype only. The machine can best be identified as Halberstadt Taube Experimental 1914 (Röver patent fuselage)

Kees Kort Thanks!

Looking at the side of the fuselage gives away that this is an Albatros Taube

I am not the ultimate man for accuracy, but it is Albatros not Albatross.

Kees Kort Changed it! Luckily not all of our Albatros images had this mistake.