Combats

Combat Report: 1730 hrs, BE two-seater. Hill 123, north of Neuville. Plane details unknown, as plane came down on enemy's territory. Message came through that enemy planes had been seen at 1.000 metres altitude in spite...

Ein Fliegerstückchen

Combat Report: 1155 hrs, Givenchy. Spad No. 6607, with Hispano Suiza 140 hp motor. The first encountered here. Machine gun No. 4810. Occupant: Lieutenant Baker. I was flying with several of my gentlemen when I observed a...

Combat Report: 0820 hrs, Tilloy. Nieuport one-seater - burnt. Occupant: Lieutenant Grivert - English. An enemy squadron had passed our lines. I went up, overtaking their last machine. After only a very few shots, the ene...

Erste Dublette

"Combat Report: 0835 hrs, Farbus village. BE two-seater No. 5841, motor: PD 1345/80. Occupants: both killed. Name of one - Lieutenant Powell. The second occupant had no documents or identification. I attacked an enemy ar...

Combat Report: 1115 hrs Givenchy. Sopwith two-seater A2401. Motor: Clerget Blin without number, Type 2. Occupants: Sergeant Dunn and Lieutenant Warrens. Together with Leutnants Voss and Lothar von Richthofen, I attacked...

"The flying Uhlan took a photograph of the wrecked plane in which he killed Lieutenant J. C. Powell and Air Gunner P. Bonner. It remains, with his notations on the back of it, in one of his several scrapbooks in his moth...

"Concerning the visit of the two brothers to the scene of Powell and Bonner's fatal crash, Lothar wrote: "It was a sad sight which we saw. Half of the machine was hanging from a roof, and the other half was on the ground...

"But now comes the third account of the affair, and this one is from Lieutenant Peter Warren, who was the pilot of the plane Richthofen shot down. His observer was Sergeant R. Dunn, and Dunn died shortly after the plane...

Combat Report: 1615 hrs, between Lens and Lieven. Vickers two-seater, NO. 6382. Motor unrecognisable. Occupants: Pilot: Lieutenant O'Beirne, killed. Observer: McDonald. Together with Leutnant Schäfer and Leutnant Lothar...

...The further reports came like hammer blows, on April 3 the thirty-second victory;...

Combat Report: 1115 hrs, Lewarde, south of Douai. Bristol two-seater No 3340. Motor No. 10443. Occupants: Lieutenant McLickler and Lieutenant George; both seriously wounded. It was foggy and altogether very bad weather w...

Combat Report: 1130 hrs, Cuincy. Bristol two-seater. Occupants: Pilot : Lieutenant Adams, Observer: Lieutenant Steward - unwounded. Plane details not at hand as machine was burned. After having put the first adversary ne...

"...on April 6, the Schweidnitz "Daily Review" already reported to me the thirty-sixth kill."

Combat Report: 1745 hrs, Mercatel, other side of our lines. Nieuport one-seater, English; details not at hand. I attacked, together with four of my gentlemen, an enemy squadron of six Nieuport machines, south of Arras an...

Combat Report: 1140 hrs, near Farbus. Sopwith two-seater. Occupants: Lieutenant Heagerty, wounded; Lieutenant Heath-Cantle, killed. Details of plane not to hand, as plane is lying in shellfire and is also dashed to piece...

Combat Report: 1640 hrs, Vimy, this side of the lines. BE2 No. A2815. Occupants: Both killed, name of one - Davidson. Remnants distributed over more than one kilometre. I was flying and surprised an English artillery fly...