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Victory 57

Event ID: 6

02 July 1917

50.73777704056608, 2.957044578239132
Deûlémont

Source ID: 58

Jagd in Flanderns Himmel, Karl Bodenschatz, Verlag Knorr & Hirth München, 1935

2. 7. 1917.

Deulemont, zwischen den Linien, 10.20 vormittags.

Ich griff das vordeste Flugzeug eines feindlichen Geschwaders an. Der Beobachter brach auf die ersten Schüsse zusammen. Der Flugzeugführer war kurz darauf tödlich getroffen. Der R.E. bäumte sich auf. Ich beschoß das aufbäumende Flugzeug aus 50 m Entfernung noch mit einigen Schüssen, bis die Flammen aus dem Apparat schlugen und der Gegner brennend abstürzte.

von Richthofen, Rittmeister und Kommandeur des Jagdgeschwaders I.

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  1. source: Inside the victories of Manfred von richthofen – Volume 1, James F. Miller, Aeronaut Books, 2016

    The author suggests a plausible yet unproven explanation of this subdued white fuselage cross outline could be the result of fuselage sanding during a keying process, whereby the high-gloss factory finish was scuffed to promote paint adhesion for a planned-to-be-applied “wash” of red paint over the entire fuselage that—because of his wounding 6 July—never came. This speculation contends the sanding could have reduced the paint depth of the white outline— which also may have received more sanding than the overall fuselage—and allowed the warm-straw-colored wood underneath to become subtly visible. This is just one of many unproven speculations.

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