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Event ID: 653

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Ein Heldenleben, Ullstein & Co, 1920

23 April 1918

49.932804234339855, 2.5372532
On a ridge by the Bray to Corbie road
Vaux-sur-Somme

Source ID: 55

Ein Heldenleben, Ullstein & Co, 1920 p.  243 

‘The English Marshal Haig reports that eleven German aircraft were shot down in aerial combat on 21 April. It turned out that one of the aircraft shot down was that of Cavalry Captain von Richthofen, who, according to his own account, had shot down over eighty Allied aircraft. His body was buried on Monday with full military honours.’

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