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German Moored Balloons and Barrage Balloons, 1914-1918
  1. German observation balloon Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German observation balloon
    Date: 01.01.1914
    Image text: A half-inflated German observation balloon. Its basket for aerial observation is still on the ground.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472697
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  2. German soldier in the basket of an observation balloon, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German soldier in the basket of an observation balloon, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: A flare gun is fired by a soldier in the basket of an observation balloon.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472698
  3. Photo camera in the basket of an german observation balloon, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Photo camera in the basket of an german observation balloon, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: An aerial observer with a photo camera in the basket of a still stationary observation balloon. A parachute hangs on the outside of the basket to allow the observer to jump in the event of danger from enemy planes.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472699
  4. German observation balloon, 1916 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German observation balloon, 1916
    Date: 01.01.1916
    Image text: A German observation balloon in a field near Verdun. A multitude of observation balloons were used by the German forces at the battle of Verdun.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472701
  5. Straw dummy in the basket of a balloon, 1914 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Straw dummy in the basket of a balloon, 1914
    Date: 01.01.1914
    Image text: A dummy is put into the basket of a german balloon to mislead enemy airmen.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472702
  6. Inflating a balloon, 1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Inflating a balloon, 1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: A German field airship troop inflates a balloon.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472703
  7. Patching a balloon, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Patching a balloon, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: German soldiers patch a tear in the fabric of a balloon.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472704
  8. Balloon ready for take off Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Balloon ready for take off
    Date: 01.01.1914
    Image text: A German balloon is readied for take off. A rope connects it to a winch on the car in front of it.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472705
  9. Inflating a German observation balloon Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Inflating a German observation balloon
    Date: 01.01.1914
    Image text: A German observation balloon is inflated through a hose by two soldiers standing on a crate.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472706
  10. Transporting a balloon over an obstacle, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Transporting a balloon over an obstacle, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: German airship troops transport a balloon and its attached lines over telephone wires.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472707
  11. Examining the inside of a balloon, 1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Examining the inside of a balloon, 1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: The inside of a German balloon is examined at the Eastern Front.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472708
  12. Retrieving a balloon, 1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Retrieving a balloon, 1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: A German balloon is retrieved before the onset of a thunderstorm.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472709
  13. An observation balloon takes off, 1914 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: An observation balloon takes off, 1914
    Date: 01.01.1914
    Image text: A German observation balloon takes off. In its basket two aerial observers.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472710
  14. The back of a rising balloon, 1916 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The back of a rising balloon, 1916
    Date: 01.01.1914
    Image text: The back of a rising German balloon. Underneath a basket with an aerial observer. In the front of the picture the lines keeping the balloon connected to the ground.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472711
  15. Balloon ready for take off, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Balloon ready for take off, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1914
    Image text: German balloon shortly before its take off.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472713
  16. Open parachute, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Open parachute, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: An open parachute that was likely used by an aerial observer to jump out of his observation balloon because of the threat of enemy planes.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472714
  17. Inflating a German balloon, 1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Inflating a German balloon, 1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: German airship crewmen inflate a balloon with gas.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472718
  18. Airship troops' dugouts, 1915 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Airship troops' dugouts, 1915
    Date: 01.01.1915
    Image text: The dugouts of German airship troops. In the background a bandstand in which a few men can be seen sitting in front of music stands.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472719
  19. Balloon preparing to ascent, 1915 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Balloon preparing to ascent, 1915
    Date: 01.01.1915
    Image text: The balloon "Böckelmann" preparing to ascent. It is used to train volunteer airmen.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472720
  20. Parachutist in a tree, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Parachutist in a tree, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: An aerial observe lands after having jumped out of an observation balloon with a parachute. The lines of his parachute have gotten caught in a tree.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472721
  21. Airship troops take cover, 1915 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Airship troops take cover, 1915
    Date: 01.01.1915
    Image text: A German airship division takes cover. Their balloon is hidden behind the stacks of straw.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472722
  22. Aerial observer is helped out of balloon basket, 1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Aerial observer is helped out of balloon basket, 1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: An german aerial observer is helped out of the basket of a recently landed observation balloon by fellow soldiers.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472723
  23. A German airship division departs for the front, 1915 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: A German airship division departs for the front, 1915
    Date: 01.01.1915
    Image text: Soldiers load carts with an airship division's equipment onto a train for departure to the front.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472724
  24. Retrieving a balloon, 1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Retrieving a balloon, 1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: Soldiers bring in a balloon with the help of cart horses.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472725
  25. A balloon's hiding place, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: A balloon's hiding place, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: German soldiers and airship crew troopers in a balloon's hiding place in the forest.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472727
  26. Emptying a balloon, 1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Emptying a balloon, 1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: Two members of a German airship troop empty a balloon with the help of a hose.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472728
  27. An airship division departs for the front from Berlin, 1915 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: An airship division departs for the front from Berlin, 1915
    Date: 01.01.1915
    Image text: German soldiers load carts with an airship division's equipment onto a train for departure to the front.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472729
  28. Gas delivery, 1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Gas delivery, 1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: A German gas crew delivers new gas cylinders for the inflating of balloons.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472731
  29. Inflating a balloon,1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Inflating a balloon,1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: German airship troops inflate a balloon.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472732
  30. Inflating a balloon,1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Inflating a balloon,1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: German airship troops inflate a balloon.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472733
  31. Folding a balloon, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Folding a balloon, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: German airship troops fold up a balloon.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472734
  32. German soldiers fold a moored balloon, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German soldiers fold a moored balloon, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: Soldiers fold a balloon together after they have let the gas out.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00059622
  33. German moored balloon over the Piave valley, 1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German moored balloon over the Piave valley, 1917
    Date: 01.01.1917
    Image text: German moored balloon on the Italian front, which was deployed over the Piave valley to observe Italian artillery.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00059722
  34. A German captive balloon in the First World War, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: A German captive balloon in the First World War, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: A German soldier jumps off a captive balloon with a parachute during a deployment in World War I.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472716
  35. Start of a German captive balloon on the Western Front, 1915 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Start of a German captive balloon on the Western Front, 1915
    Date: 01.02.1915
    Image text: Soldiers fill a captive balloon with buoyant gas in France. The gas tanks are camouflaged under the haystack.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00060223
  36. German balloon observer, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German balloon observer, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: With the help of a map affixed to a balloon basket, an officer explains the situation at the front to an observer sent on reconnaissance.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00059625
  37. German captive balloon is made ready for ascension in 1915 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German captive balloon is made ready for ascension in 1915
    Date: 01.01.1915
    Image text: German soldiers get ready a captive balloon to ascend at the beginning of 1915.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00060181
  38. German pilot after landing with a parachute, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German pilot after landing with a parachute, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: A pilot has landed with a parachute on the western front. Other soldiers come running and help him out of the parachute.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472553
  39. Moored balloon before ascent, 1915 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Moored balloon before ascent, 1915
    Date: 23.11.1915
    Image text: German airship crew prepare for the ascent of a moored balloon in the First World War .
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00041648
  40. German moored balloon is filled, 1917 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German moored balloon is filled, 1917
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: The gas from a damaged moored balloon (left) is transferred into a new balloon.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00059623
  41. German soldiers empty a tethered balloon, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German soldiers empty a tethered balloon, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: Soldiers from a german Field Balloon Division on the Western front push the gas out of a tethered balloon.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00005025
  42. German Soldiers Handling a Captive Balloon, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German Soldiers Handling a Captive Balloon, 1918
    Date: 19.11.1918
    Image text: At the Western front, German soldiers get a captive balloon ready for take-off. On the balloon, the Iron Cross tags the nationality of this tool of war.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00005024
  43. Airship crew taking down a moored balloon, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Airship crew taking down a moored balloon, 1918
    Date: 11.07.1918
    Image text: Members of a german field airship detachment take down a moored balloon with toggle lines.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00041647
  44. A German captive balloon, 1919 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: A German captive balloon, 1919
    Date: 01.01.1914
    Image text: A German captive balloon, as it is used by artillery observers in World War I.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472715
  45. German balloon observer ready for take off, 1918 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German balloon observer ready for take off, 1918
    Date: 01.01.1918
    Image text: German balloon observer in the basket of a balloon ready for take off.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472789
  46. An airship division departs for the front from Berlin, 1915 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: An airship division departs for the front from Berlin, 1915
    Date: 01.01.1915
    Image text: The soldiers of German airship division at the station in Berlin waiting for their departure for the front.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472785
  47. Shooting of a captive balloon in the First World War Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Shooting of a captive balloon in the First World War
    Date: 01.01.1914
    Image text: The picture shows the shooting of a German captive balloon in World War I. Undated picture.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00472768