April 20, 1918

Victory 80

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Victory 80

Victory 80 (picture source: Thomas La Padula - Aviation Art)

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Coordinates 49.881420484156266, 2.5437080378622836

Event Narrative

Combat Report: 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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Victory 80

Victory 80

Victory 80 (picture source: Thomas La Padula - Aviation Art)

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