Victory 58

    Event ID: 35

    Categories: 

    Air Combat
    English
    Under the guns of the Red Baron

    16 August 1917

    50.96316338673082, 2.9594966323496976
    Polygon Wood
    Houthulst

    Source ID: 13

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

    ISBN: 9781898697275

    Opponent was  William Williams 

    Flying the Nieuport 23 A6611 

    VS

    MvR was flying the Albatros D.V 2059/17 

    Combat Report: 0755 hrs. At about 0755, accompanied by four aircraft of Staffel 11, I pursued a small flight of Nieuports. After a long chase, I attacked an opponent and after a short fight I shot up his engine and fuel tank. The aeroplane went into a tail spin. I followed right after it until just above the ground, gave it one more shot, so that the aeroplane crashed south-west of Houthulst Forest and went right into the ground. As I was about 50 metres behind him, I passed through a cloud of gas from the explosion that made it hard to see for a brief moment. Weather: fine.

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