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Originally Posted by Ahnab
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? |
Mate,
I agree, but there was one thing standing in their way. There were between twenty and twenty-five Albartos D.V scouts above the Voss fight as noted by Ltn Hamersley of 60 Sqdn.
Individual German observers to the Voss dogfight on 23 Sept 1917, but were prevented from interfearing/kept in check by Allied Units that were in the combat area (above and below) on that day:
56 Squadron – S.E.5 and S.E.5a - (Quote:McCudden/Cadwell)
60 Squadron – S.E 5 - (Quote:McCudden/Cadwell)
20/22 Squadron - Bristol (F.2B)Fighter’s - (Quote:McCudden/Wortley)
R.E.8 Protected by Bristol Fighter’s - (Quote:McCudden)
20 Squadron – SPADS VII - (Quote:McCudden)
46 Squadron - Sopwith Pup’s - (Quote:McCudden)
45/70 Squadron - Sopwith Camel’s - several thousand feet below Voss – (Quote:Hamersley/McCudden)
29 Squadron – Nieuport 23 & 27
32/57 Squadron - D.H 5
55 Squadron – D.H.4 (Quote:McCudden)
40 Squadron – Nieuport 17 & 23
It was pretty much enjoy the show, your not going anywhere.
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P.S. hopes this answers your question