Who needs war fiction when the true life stuff is a million times more amazing? The incredible story of how a German First World War airman climbed out of a fighter plane mid-air to fill a hole with his boot has been revealed in a pilot's long-lost photo album. Emil Buge flew on 37 sorties against the British on the Western Front, dropping 27 bombs, 128 grenades and firing 9,500 rounds of ammunition. Now, almost 100 years after he took to the skies over France, his personal archive has been discovered in an antique shop in Argentina. The fascinating collection, including two logbooks, a flight book, shooting book and Buge's personal notes, also features an album with 417 original photos. The picturebook shows fascinating images of aerial warfare, including crashed biplanes, German aviators and scenes from the battlefields. One of the photos in particular, tells a tell of unique guile and bravery. It shows a hole in the wing of Buge's aircraft and a note with it revealing how his observer climbed out in mid-air and filled the gap with his boot so the wing wouldn't crack. Despite his service in the Great War, Buge was imprisoned as a political prisoner at the notorious Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, by the Nazis in the Second World War. It is estimated that 30,000 inmates died there due to poor conditions, executions and medical experiments." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...plane-mid-air-make-repairs.html#ixzz4b8BTLO88
