Lot 7487
Captain Hans Lösch – a photo album of the 7th Air-Sea Rescue Squadron commander from his time as a flight student in the Imperial Navy
Orders and Military Collectibles until 1918 | A109m | Live auction | 1502 Lots
Description
Contains over 120 photographs of various sizes in a landscape-format, half-leather bound album; the flyleaf bears the owner's name, “H. Lösch.” Subjects include flight training at the Holtenau flight school (c. 1913/14), Imperial Naval Air Service biplanes, a Turkish delegation, comrades, a Zeppelin, etc. Also included are two postcards sent during World War I, two photographs (one showing Lösch in front of a 1920s/30s aircraft, the other as a Luftwaffe officer), and a letter from Lösch's widow dated 1982, in which she gifts the album to a collector. In September 1943, while serving as *Staffelkapitän* (squadron commander) of the 7th Air-Sea Rescue Squadron in Athens, Lösch was injured in a collision with a wall during a night landing approach while the base was under blackout conditions.Condition: II Questions about the lot?
