• Victory 80 (picture source: Thomas La Padula - Aviation Art)
  • Combat report victory 80. (picture source: The Illustrated Red Baron - The life and times of Manfred von Richthofen - Peter Kilduff -Cassel & Co - 2000)

Victory 80

Event ID: 276

Categories: 

Air Combat
English
Under the guns of the Red Baron

20 April 1918

49.881420484156266, 2.5437080378622836
NE of Villers-Bretonneux
Villers-Bretonneux

Source ID: 13

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

ISBN: 9781898697275

Opponent was  David Lewis

flying the Sopwith F.1 Camel B7393   

VS

MvR was flying the Fokker Dr.I 425/17 

1843 hrs, north-east of Villers-Bretonneux. Sopwith Camel, burned; Englishman. Three minutes after I had brought down the first machine, I attacked a second Camel of the same enemy squadron. The adversary dived, caught his machine and repeated this manoeuvre several times. I approached him as near as possible when fighting and fired 50 bullets until the machine began to burn. The body of the machine was burned in the air, the remnants dashed to the ground, north-east of Villers-Bretonneux.

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