"According to the survivor of this encounter, Lieutenant W. N. Hamilton, the British patrol was not an ordinary one, but one especially ordered to deal with the Baron and his pilots..... ...His commanding officer was Maj...
Timelines
Combats
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April 30, 1917
The newspaper
Die Zeitung
Combat Report: 1315 hrs. Hof Struywe, Square V.42., this side of the line. RE2 (burnt). Accompanied by my Staffel, I attacked at 2.500 metres north of Ypres, on this side of the line, an English artillery RE. I fired fro...
Victory 54?
June 24, 1917
Victory 55
Between Keibergmolen (former windmill, located in Beselare) and Lichtensteinlager.
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 fighte...
Combat Report: 1840 hrs, above trenches near le Bizet, other side of the line. RE plane. I was flying together with Leutnant Allmenröder. We spotted an enemy artillery flyer whose wings broke off in my machine gun fire....
July 2, 1917
Victory 57
‘2. 7. 1917. Deulemont, between the lines, 10.20 in the morning. I attacked the foremost aeroplane of an enemy squadron. The observer collapsed at the first shots. The pilot was fatally shot shortly afterwards. The R.E....
July 2, 1917
Victory 57 - The Witnesses
Victory 57 - witness reports
July 6, 1917
MvR wounded
MvR shot down
Opponent
Unknown opponent
VS
Manfred von Richthofen
MvR
MvR verwundet am Hinterkopf
July 6, 1917
MvR wounded in the back of the head
MvR wounded
July 6, 1917
Shortly after crash-landing
A lieutenant in an air-observation post about a mile away had seen Richthofen's fall through his telescope and rushed to the spot under the two circling scouts. When he and a corporal reached Richthofen, they found him u...
July 6, 1917
MvR wounded - Woodbridge's version
"The man who shot Richthofen down that 6th of July morning was Flight Commander Albert Edward Woodbridge, who was a Second Lieutenant at the time and was acting as observer for Pilot Captain D. C. Cunnell, commanding a w...
July 6, 1917
Wounded
"On a wonderful day (6 July 1917), I went on a fighter mission with my squadron. We had been flying around between Ypres and Armentières for quite a while without really getting into a fight. Then I saw a squadron over t...
July 6, 1917
MvR wounded - Schröder's version
Opponent
Unknown opponent
VS
Manfred von Richthofen
MvR
"On the ground not far away was a German observation post, manned on this day by Leutnant Hans Schröder. After the war he wrote a book An Airman Remembers. A former soldier and airman observer, he used to seeing air batt...
July 14, 1917
Victory 57 - Recognition
Victory 57 - acknowledgement
July 15, 1917
Ovation from the city of Courtrai
Opponent
Unknown opponent
VS
Manfred von Richthofen
MvR
"For a while, I had set up my field of activity close to the city of Courtrai and had been working there for quite some time. Then, around mid-July, the following happened: The English, and to a large extent also the Fre...
Opponent
Unknown opponent
VS
Manfred von Richthofen
MvR
Lt. Tüxen (JASTA 6) at 21:05 east of Komen, a Sopwith Camel B3779 of Lt. C.S. Werkman of 70th SQDN. Initially, there is some discussion whether Lt Tüxen, Lt Deilmann or OFW. Wüsthoff (JASTA 4) had done the shooting. MVR...