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Thursday, April 21, 2016
WW1: The Ace's Lucky Penguin
Adolphe Pégoud’s lucky mascot. It was a toy penguin, displayed today in Paris’ Musée de l'Armée. The charred stuffed animal was pulled from the crash that killed Pégoud, the first flying ace in history.
2 comments:
Toddy Cat
said...
"On 31 August 1915, Pégoud was shot down and killed by one of his pre-war German students, Unteroffizier Walter Kandulski,[1] while intercepting a German reconnaissance aircraft. He was 26 years old. The same German crew later dropped a funeral wreath behind the French lines"
What a weird war, what brave men, and what a waste...
2 comments:
"On 31 August 1915, Pégoud was shot down and killed by one of his pre-war German students, Unteroffizier Walter Kandulski,[1] while intercepting a German reconnaissance aircraft. He was 26 years old. The same German crew later dropped a funeral wreath behind the French lines"
What a weird war, what brave men, and what a waste...
"Lucky" penguin? Lucky for whom?
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