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Victory 55

Event ID: 219

24 juin 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

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

    l. Richthofcn’s translated combat report is erroneously dated as « June 26th, 1917. »

    2. Richthofen’s translated combat report records an erroneous time of « 9.10PM”

    3. From RFC Communique No. 86: « April 29th . Hostile Aircraft—A patrol of No. 57 Squadron observed several hostile aircraft engaging two S.E.5’s. The F.E.’s joined in the combat, and a pilot of one of the hostile machines, which was engaged by Capt. McNaughton and 2nd Lieut. Downing, was seen to fall from his machine, which crashed. »

    4. From RFC Communique No. 86: « April 30th. Hostile Aircraft—Major L.A. Pattinson and Lieut. A. H. Mearns, No. 57 Squadron, observed a formation of their F.E.’s fighting with German machines, and immediately joined in the combat. They drove down one of the hostile machines in a damaged condition…  »

    5. From RFC Communique No, 93: « June 21 st. Enemy Aircraft—Capt. McNaughton, No.57 Squadron, drove down an Albatross (sic)
    Scout out of control. »

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