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Victory 62

Event ID: 674

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

23 November 1917

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SE edge of Bourlon Wood-rescued from no-mans land
Bourlon Wood

Source ID: 58

Jagd in Flanderns Himmel, Karl Bodenschatz, Verlag Knorr & Hirth München, 1935 p.  56 

“Above the Bourlon Forest, entire swarms of English squadrons are flying around, tightly packed in massed formations. Single-seaters and multi-seaters, aircraft of all types.

At 2 o’clock in the afternoon on 23 November, Fighter Wing I joins the battle at Cambrai. The commander rattles off his machine gun bursts and the first Englishman swoops down from the swarm of wasps; Lieutenants Lothar von Richthofen and Küppers each take one.”

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