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heinpoblome — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:07:24 +0000

source: Inside the victories of Manfred von richthofen – Volume 1, James F. Miller, Aeronaut Books, 2016
Heagerty stated in a post-war interview with Gibbons that after Richthofen’s first attack the combatants entered a spiraling dogfight until the Strutter’s flight controls were shot away, apparently in the same burst that incapacitated or killed Cantle. Heagerty noted: “From a glide, we went into a dive. All the way down the red machine, or some machine, kept right in back of me, ripping bursts after burst of machine-gun bullets into the plane from the rear”. Most likely another example of Richthofen’s no-quarter Modus Operandi to continuously attack descending and/or disabled aeroplanes if they were still airborne.

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