{"id":508,"date":"2013-09-04T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/?p=508"},"modified":"2018-05-24T08:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T07:56:54","slug":"the-flight-log-of-walter-stolz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"The Flight Log of Walter Stolz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite some time ago, I have started to collect flight logs of former Luftwaffe Pilots. A flight log is small book, usually showing one line entries per flight:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sample-Page.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[508]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-509\" alt=\"Sample Page\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sample-Page.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sample-Page.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sample-Page-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Sample-Page-1024x354.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a>What they don&#8217;t do is tell the stories behind the flights &#8211; the page above is a sample from Walter Stolz&#8217;s log. Luckily, he had a rather clear handwriting and although the letters are written in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%BCtterlin\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00fctterlin<\/a>&#8220;, the German words are easily readable (with a bit of practice and if you speak German).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreaszapf.de\/blog-chronicles-media\/Flight-Log-Guide-Walter-Stolz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-437\" alt=\"PDF\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/PDF.png\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>So let me introduce a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreaszapf.de\/blog-chronicles-media\/Flight-Log-Guide-Walter-Stolz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Flight Log Guide<\/a> to you &#8211; I have taken the flight log of Walter Stolz and tried to put it into perspective: by providing you with copies of the original pages on the one side but also with the events surrounding them and some additional explanation. If new information becomes available, I will update over time.<\/p>\n<p>This may not be entirely correct and if you find information that is wrong or could be extended, please let me know &#8211; I am happy to receive feedback and develop the result further &#8211; with the Internet, publishing is not the end, it is the beginning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite some time ago, I have started to collect flight logs of former Luftwaffe Pilots. A flight log is small book, usually showing one line entries per flight: What they don&#8217;t do is tell the stories behind the flights &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/?p=508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[30,29],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flight-logs","tag-aufkl-gr-14","tag-zg-26"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26prQ-8c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}