Kommentare zu: Sieg 49 https://dev.meettheredbaron.com/de/event/victory-49/ The life and death of Manfred von Richthofen. Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Von: heinpoblome https://dev.meettheredbaron.com/de/event/victory-49/#comment-495 Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:51:33 +0000 https://www.meettheredbaron.com/event/victory-49/#comment-495 source: Inside the victories of Manfred von richthofen – Volume 1, James F. Miller, Aeronaut Books, 2016

l. The RFC Combat Casualties Report listed the SPAD serial number as „A. 1573.“

2. The RFC Combat Casualties Report listed B. 1573’s machine gun as a „Lewis.“

3. Richthofen’s autobiography Der Rote Kampfflieger described Applin’s downing: „My opponent was the first to fall, after I had shot his engine to pieces. In any case, he decided to land near us. I no longer know any mercy, landl for that reason I attacked him a second time,whereupon the aeroplane fell apart in my stream of bullets. The wings each fell away like pieces of paper and the fuselage went roaring down like a stone on fire.“ Again, this account is consistent with Richthofen’s usual no-quarter modus operandi.

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