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Ahnab · 1 January 2009, 12:46 AM

I read in Tom's fabulous article (Werner Voss: Hero or Super Hero) that Voss took off with 2 wingmen on the fateful September day (Ltn.d.R Friedrich Rudenberg & Ltn.d.R Gustav S. Bellen, both flying, I believe, Pfalz D. IIIa's). Voss soon out-paced them because of his faster machine. When the fight with 56 Squardon began, his wingmen could actually see Voss taking on McCudden & Co. from a distance. What I wanted to know was, although the fight was happening at quite a distance from them and went on for almost 10 minutes, wasn't that enough time for them to close in and dive in to help Voss? I'm asking this coz I can't find any accounts of what the two of them did apart from witnessing the fight from a distance. If they were close enough to see what was going on (even if the aircraft appeared as specks in the sky), shouldn't that mean they were still, nonetheless, close enough to eventually reach the fight and help out Voss in the approximately 10 minutes the fight took to conclude?

1 January 2009, 12:46 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ahnab Observer Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Lahore, Pakistan Posts: 92	Voss' Wingmen I read in Tom's fabulous article (Werner Voss: Hero or Super Hero) that Voss took off with 2 wingmen on the fateful September day (Ltn.d.R Friedrich Rudenberg & Ltn.d.R Gustav S. Bellen, both flying, I believe, Pfalz D. IIIa's). Voss soon out-paced them because of his faster machine. When the fight with 56 Squardon began, his wingmen could actually see Voss taking on McCudden & Co. from a distance. What I wanted to know was, although the fight was happening at quite a distance from them and went on for almost 10 minutes, wasn't that enough time for them to close in and dive in to help Voss? I'm asking this coz I can't find any accounts of what the two of them did apart from witnessing the fight from a distance. If they were close enough to see what was going on (even if the aircraft appeared as specks in the sky), shouldn't that mean they were still, nonetheless, close enough to eventually reach the fight and help out Voss in the approximately 10 minutes the fight took to conclude? __________________ Misfortunes never come alone; say hello to my pair of Spandaus!