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Victory 70

Event ID: 266

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

26 March 1918

50.02252891499384, 2.6924043306502172
2 km NE of Albert, Somme
Albert

Source ID: 58

Jagd in Flanderns Himmel, Karl Bodenschatz, Verlag Knorr & Hirth München, 1935 p.  75 

From “Under the Guns of the Red Baron, Franks et al”: “1700 hrs, two kilometres north-east of Albert. RE old type, burnt; Englishman. A quarter of an hour after my first victory on this day, I detected in exactly the same spot, at an altitude of 700 metres, an RE two-seater. I went into a dive behind it, and from close range I fired about 100 rounds, and set him on fire. At first the Englishman defended himself with the observer’s machine gun. The plane burned in the air until impact. Half an hour later, the machine continued to burn on the ground.”

From ‘Jagd in Flandrens Himmel, Bodenschatz’: “In a quarter of an hour after the first shot I hit an R.E. two-seater at exactly the same spot at an altitude of about 700 metres. I dived behind it and shot it up at close range with about 100 shots. At first the Englishman defended himself with an observer machine gun. The aeroplane burned in the air until it hit the ground. Half an hour later, the aircraft was still burning on the ground.”

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