The Collectors edition

Adding considerable historic significance, each copy in this highly-restricted edition is issued
mounted to full conservation standards to include an original and authentic autograph of a highly
decorated German pilot who flew during WWI

Feldwebel Gustav Boehl

Overall matted size: 18¾" x 29"

Gustav Boehl

Born on 22nd. January 1895, soon after the outbreak of WWI, at the age of nineteen, Gustav Boehl found himself in the German air force stationed at Cambrai in Northern France and working as an airframe and engine mechanic.
As the Imperial Air Force was a relatively small arm of the services during those years, and the
actual fighting area was confined to only a few miles of air space, more or less directly above the
lines with airfields in the immediate vicinity, Boehl frequently encountered people like Manfred
von Richthofen, Boelcke, Immelmann etc.

As the war drew on Boehl eventually managed to obtain a place in pilot training and graduated
from flying school in the Spring of 1917. He quickly became commander of 19 Sqdn flying the
Albatros, and continued flying combat missions until the end of the war.
When hostilities ended he was a highly decorated and experienced combat pilot and recipient of
the Royal Hohenzollern House Order with Swords.