Victory 47

    Event ID: 199

    Categories: 

    Air Combat
    English
    Under the guns of the Red Baron

    23 April 1917

    50.3963001671987, 2.868850315651498
    Mericourt

    Source ID: 13

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

    ISBN: 9781898697275

    Opponent was  Eric Welch 

    Flying the B.E.2f A3168 

    VS

    MvR was flying the Albatros D.III 2253/17 

    Combat Report: 1205 hrs, Mericourt, this side of the lines. BE two-seater. No details, as plane broke in the air and was scattered in falling. I observed an artillery flyer, approached him unnoticed, and shot at him from the closest range, until his left wing came off. The machine broke to pieces and fell near Mericourt. Weather: fine.

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