German pilot Kleim with his observer, ground crew, and LVG bi-plane. Kleim is marked with an 'x' above his head, standing, outer coat open, hands on his hips. The plane may be an early model C.II introduced in late 1915. It has wire wheels of the earlier B.I, and what may be an early exhaust pipe. The more typical C.II positions the exhaust at the midpoint of the engine.
[Trans:] My AircraftKleim L.V.G.
"March 12 [1916] saw N.3's recently commissioned Sous-Lieutenant Georges Guynemer score his eighth success over an LVG near Thiescourt, killing Unterofficier Friedrich Ackermann and Leutnant Friedrich Marquardt of Fl. Abt. 61. On the same day, Boelcke drove a Farman of MF.63 down just outside of French lines, where its dead pilot and wounded observer were recovered, but it was subsequently destroyed by German artillery fire."
Georges Guynemer's French aviation unit N.3 took its designation from its Nieuport planes. The L.V.G was a German two-seater reconnaissance plane. The Fl. Abt., or Flieger Abteilungen, were German aviation units. Oswald Boelcke was an early German air strategist and combat tactician.
The Origin of the Fighter Aircraft by Jon Gutman, page 46, copyright © 2009 Jon Gutman, publisher: Westholme Publishing, publication date: 2009
1916-03-12, 1916, March, Guynemer, Georges Guynemer, L.V.G. C.II, L.V.G., LVG
