• picture source: Thomas La Padula - Aviation Art
  • The remains of a 12 Squadron BE.2c (2506), Manfred's eighth victory, scored on 9 November 1916; 2/Lt I. G. Cameron died in this action. (picture source: The Red Baron, a history in pictures, Norman Franks, 2016, Pen & Sword Books)

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Event ID: 140

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

09 november 1916

50.13036094921185, 2.918734811322256
Beugny

Source ID: 13

Under the guns of the Red Baron, Norman Franks, Hal Giblin and Nigel McCrery p. 29

ISBN: 9781898697275

Tegenstander was Ian Cameron

vliegend met de B.E.2c 2506

VS

MvR vloog met de Albatros D.II 491/16

“Gevechtsrapport: 1030 uur, BE tweezitter, No. 2506. Motor: Daimler No. 22082. Inzittenden: Ernstig gewond, piloot zeer ernstig; waarnemer, schouder.

Boven Beugny. Rond 1030 viel ik, met enkele andere vliegtuigen, een vijandelijk bombardementseskader aan boven Mory op 2.500 meter hoogte. Na een voorgaand bochtig gevecht stortte mijn slachtoffer neer op de grond nabij Beugny.

Weer: helder en bijna de hele dag helder.”

Comments (1)

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

    Richthofen’s reference to an observer being wounded begat the thought that the “observer” was Lt. Gerald Featherstone Knight. Knight was also thought to be the pilot of 2506 and Cameron his observer. However, Knight was pilot of BE.2c 2502 shot down by Oblt. Kirmaier, for his 9th victory.

    In his autobiography Der Rote Kampfflieger, Richthofen recalled that after this victory he and Imelmann drove and then hiked through mud to reach the crash site. Upon gaining Cameron’s crashed BE.2c, which still carried its bombs, Richthofen was introduced to the Sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Later that evening Richthofen was summoned to appear before the Duke and informed of the belief he had prevented the British from bombing the Duke’s headquarters (although No. 12’s stated objective had been bombing the Vraucourt sugar factory). For this he received the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Duke Carl Eduard Medal, 2nd Class with Swords on 30 December, 1916.

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