• Victory 51 (picture source: Thomas La Padula - Aviation Art)

Victory 51

Event ID: 205

Categories: 

Air Combat
English
Under the guns of the Red Baron

29 April 1917

50.30285648322948, 2.8922595196083067
Near Roeux
Roeux

Source ID: 13

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

ISBN: 9781898697275

Opponent was  David Davies

flying the B.E.2e 2738   

VS

MvR was flying the Albatros D.III 2253/17 

Combat Report: 1925 hrs, near Roeux, this side of the lines. BE DD 2. No details, as plane is under fire. Together with my brother, we each of us attacked an artillery flyer at low altitude. After a short fight my adversary’s plane lost its wings. When hitting the ground near the trenches near Rouex, the plane caught fire.

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