can you identify this airman in the picture?

[rob3rt]

this is for an assignment at school. if i could figure out who this person is and how it relates to my literature class (romance and realism), and why this particular picture, then i get to skip a writing assignment. i just need to figure out who it is, i think i can come up with a good argument. can anyone help?

sorry its on geocities, please copy and paste the link.

here it is

thanks!

 

[Brutuskend]

Looks like a RAF or maybe RCAF uniform to me.

 

[Okimoto]

geocities isnt the best image host so here's a better one....

Airman!!!!!!!!!!!

you dont have to copy and paste to view this one

 

[Okimoto]

I'm beginning to think he was a german airman?

I haven't seen any WW2 RAF officers with that type of cap.....

 

[rob3rt]

yeah i'm not too sure
google isn't helping much heh

 

[Okimoto]

try looking up german uniforms to identify the era, and if we can positively identify the era of which this person was from, we can next find any person of significance from their military

 

[DeRusto]

maybe im crazy but the uniform bears a resemblance to one on this page - http://www.lonestar-mvpa.org/events/01_tatoo.htm

edit: possibly here too - http://www.routledgeh.freeserve.co.uk/photo01.htm

edit 2: i say it looks like RAF

 

[Calaf]

Manfred Frhr von Richthofen, better known as Baron von Richthofen, or the Red Baron....perhaps?

 

[Okimoto]

wasnt the baron in world war 1? with a moustache?

 

[DeRusto]

WWI, yes..moustache, no

 

[ElFenix]

literature eh? i don't think ernest hemingway was ever in the air corps...

 

[deftron]

The English Patient ?

 

[Spoooon]

What books and what kinds of books are you reading for your class?

 

[deftron]

Damn. I'm good.


William Faulkner

 

[DeRusto]

good job

Faulkner liked to pose for photographs in his RAF uniform, as seen here in the uniform of an RAF lieutenant, a rank he never attained.

yay! i was on the right track

 

[LeStEr]

Airman = Yahoo!

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: deftron
Damn. I'm good.


William Faulkner

that was my second guess

 

[rob3rt]

thanks a lot deftron