• picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021

Sergeant Popkin’s crew

Event ID: 772

Categories: 

Air Combat
English
The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021

21 April 1918

49.92624737885039, 2.536025914275235
On a ridge by the Bray to Corbie road
Vaux-sur-Somme

Source ID: 35

The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021 p.  105 

ISBN: 9781526781321

Opponent was  

flying the     

VS

MvR was flying the Fokker Dr.I 425/17 

Australian machine gun crew that brought down MvR.

Sergeant Cedric B. Popkin is at the trigger handles of the Vickers machine gun.

To his left is Harry Heywood, and to his right might be Ruper F. Weston. The fourth person has not been identified yet.

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