• One of the mysteries of MvR's eighty claims had been scored on the evening of 23 June 1917. (picture source: The Red Baron, a history in pictures, Norman Franks, 2016, Pen & Sword Books)

Victory 54?

Event ID: 218

Categories: 

Air Combat
English
Under the guns of the Red Baron

23 June 1917

50.869532751538074, 2.874498885085415
North of Ieper
Ieper

Source ID: 13

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

ISBN: 9781898697275

Opponent was  Robert Farquhar 

Flying the Spad VII B1530 

VS

MvR was flying the Albatros D.V 1177/17 

Combat Report: 2130 hrs, north of Ypres. Spad one-seater. I attacked, together with several of my gentlemen, an enemy one-seater squadron on the enemy’s side. During the fight I fired at a Spad some 300 shots from shortest distance. My adversary did not start to curve and did nothing to evade my fire. At first the plane began to smoke, then fell, turning and turning to the ground, two kilometres north of Ypres, without having been caught. Weather: cloudy, with bright intervals: visibility very good at times.

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