Led Zeppelin's debut album was adorned by an adapted version of Sam Shere's iconic photograph of the German zeppelin Hindenburg bursting into flames upon landing in New Jersey 1937, but it wasn't the only time the band turned to German flying machines for inspiration.
For the artwork for Led Zeppelin II, designer David Juniper – who'd attended Sutton Art College in Surrey with Jimmy Page – turned to a First World War-era photo from the German Federal Archive, which showed the legendary fighting ace Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, a.k.a. the Red Baron, sitting in the cockpit of an Albatros D.III fighter aircraft alongside members of his fighter squadron, Jagdstaffel 11 Division.
