1917 07 Jasta 30 Hunting party - Russell Smith
Jasta 30 Hunting Party features the Albatros DVs of Lt Otto Fuchs (foreground), Lt Kurt Katzenstein (middle), and Oblt Hans Bethge (top). (not visible in this cropped pic)
Otto Fuchs was assigned to Jasta 30 in June 1917. His Albatros DV was adorned with his personal logo of a fox chasing a rooster. He would later apply this same logo to other aircraft when serving with Jasta 77b. Fuchs would end the war with 3 victories.
Kurt Katzenstein, whose name in English translates to "cat-stone", marked his Albatros DV with a depiction of a cat sitting on a stone. After transferring out of Jasta 30 in January of 1918, Katzenstein would serve briefly with 2 other units before once again returning to Jasta 30 in March of that year. He ended the war with 1 victory. Hans Bethge, who served as the first Commanding Officer of Jasta 30, scored a majority of his 20 credited victories with the unit before being killed in action in March, 1918.
