the style must have caught on!
Ltn Oliver von Beaulieu-Marconnay Jasta 15. He paid tribute to the
4th Prussian Dragoons by having a personal insignia painted on all his planes consisting of a numeral 4 merged with a capital letter D. He would begin his tenure as commander by totaling ten victories in September, and four more in October. Flights in the Schuckert DIII's were limited to defensive operations, as they had orders forbidding flights over enemy lines lest one of the new planes fall into Allied hands. His 25th and last confirmed victory came on 10 October 1918. On October 18, in the confusion of a dogfight, Beaulieu-Marconnay was seriously wounded in the thigh, possibly as a result of 'friendly fire' from a fellow German pilot from
Jagdstaffel 74. He managed to regain his home airfield and land safely, and was rushed to the hospital, bleeding freely and in very critical condition. He died on October 26 1918 of infection from the wound...His 'Blue Max', which cannot be given
posthumously, was rushed through, yet the announcement came six hours too late for the hero, the youngest recipient of the Pour Le Merite in WWI.
