Victory 45

Event ID: 196

Categories: 

Air Combat
English
Under the guns of the Red Baron

16 April 1917

50.321518658125534, 2.8538811399464925
Between Bailleul and Gavrelle-Allied side of Lines.
Bailleul

Source ID: 13

Under the guns of the Red Baron, Norman Franks, Hal Giblin and Nigel McCrery

ISBN: 9781898697275

Opponent was  

flying the B.E.2e 3156   

VS

MvR was flying the Albatros D.III 2253/17 

Combat Report: 1730 hrs, between Bailleul and Gavrelle. BE two-seater. No details as plane fell on other side. When pursuit-flying (height of clouds 1.000 metres) I observed an artillery flyer at 800 metres altitude; approached him unnoticed, and attacked him, whereupon he fell down, smoking. The pilot caught the machine once more, but then lost control at 100 metres. The plane plunged down between Bailleul and Gavrelle. NB The clocks had changed again on the Western Front, German time from this data being once more ahead of Allied time by one hour. This would continue until 9 March 1918. Weather: rain and low clouds all day.

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