Victory 55

    Event ID: 219

    Categories: 

    Air Combat
    English
    Under the guns of the Red Baron

    24 June 1917

    50.852624327709485, 3.0307366220562146
    Between Keibergmolen (former windmill, located in Beselare) and Lichtensteinlager.
    Beselare

    Source ID: 13

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

    ISBN: 9781898697275

    Opponent was  Norman McNaughton 

    Flying the Airco D.H.4 A7473 

    VS

    MvR was flying the Albatros D.V 1177/17 

    Combat Report: 0910 hrs, between Keibergmolen and Lichtensteinlager, this side of the lines. De Havilland DD. With six machines of my Staffel, I attacked enemy squad consisting of two reconnaissance planes and ten fighters. Unimpeded by the enemy fighters, I managed to break one of the reconnaissance planes with my fire. The fuselage fell with the inmates into a hangar between Keibergmelen and Lichtensteinlager, this side of our lines. The plane exploded when crashing on the ground and destroyed the hangar. Weather: fine but cloudy, visibility good in early morning and again in the evening.

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