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Originally Posted by Sven
Have thought long about it, but every time I end up depicting myself in a 109 
After that the Heinkel 111, of course, beautiful plane 
Does anyone know if that's Franz von Werra's lion, or were they just popular mascots?  |
No idea if it's his lion but i guess weird "pets" were popular with pilots in general, especially if we consider that he wasn't the first. I've read a few WWI memoirs online, including Eddie Rickenbaker's (i think it's out of print and available for free on some history websites, google it up), according to some of those books the US volunteer Escadrille Lafayette also had a lion mascot.
There's an awesome story that Raul Lufberry went AWOL for a whole week and when he was finally discovered bar-hopping in the bistros and restaurants of Paris, he was taking a stroll with a wine bottle in one hand and a full-grown lion on a leash in the other, but i don't know if it's confirmed or simply a legend. What most people agree on as reliable information however is that the lion's name was Whiskey