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Sailor Steve · 04-14-18, 12:51 PM

April 14, 1918

Air War:

American pilots Alan Francis Winslow and Douglas Campbell of the 94th Aero Squadron are scrambeled to a report of two German fighters in their area. They take off and almost immediately encounter the two enemy planes.

0851 Alan Winslow shoots down an Albatros D.V for the first victory by the United States Signal Corps, Aviaton Section, as it was then known. Uffz Heinrich Simon is taken prisoner.

Simon's Albatros

0852 Douglas Campbell shoots down the other plane, an Albatros D.V. It crashes in flames and the pilot, Vfw Anton Wroniecki, is badly burned. Early reports said that Wroniecki was killed in the fight, but it seems this was a cover story to hide the fact that the Polish pilot wished to defect to the United States.

Wroniecki's Pfalz

Bosnia-Herzegovina-born Austro-Hungarian pilot Friedrich Navratil, flying Oeffag Albatros D.III 153.157, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 1.

04-14-18, 12:51 PM	#2948
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	April 14, 1918 Air War: American pilots Alan Francis Winslow and Douglas Campbell of the 94th Aero Squadron are scrambeled to a report of two German fighters in their area. They take off and almost immediately encounter the two enemy planes. 0851 Alan Winslow shoots down an Albatros D.V for the first victory by the United States Signal Corps, Aviaton Section, as it was then known. Uffz Heinrich Simon is taken prisoner. Simon's Albatros 0852 Douglas Campbell shoots down the other plane, an Albatros D.V. It crashes in flames and the pilot, Vfw Anton Wroniecki, is badly burned. Early reports said that Wroniecki was killed in the fight, but it seems this was a cover story to hide the fact that the Polish pilot wished to defect to the United States. Wroniecki's Pfalz Bosnia-Herzegovina-born Austro-Hungarian pilot Friedrich Navratil, flying Oeffag Albatros D.III 153.157, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 1. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo Last edited by Sailor Steve; 04-18-18 at 11:37 AM.