‘Everything in the air belongs to me’ – Red Baron Claims his First Kill
On 17th September, 1916, five German fighter planes tracked a squadron of British planes over the First World War battlefields of France. The German aircraft waited for the perfect moment to strike, to annihilate the British planes and then retreat before Allied reinforcements could arrive.
At the controls of an Albatros D.11 biplane, one of the German pilots was looking to make his first official kill. He selected a single British plane and started to hone in on it. In a blaze of gun fire the German planes launched the attack with the sun behind them. Through the chaos, the German pilot stuck to his intended target. Ducking and diving, the planes chased each other through the sky. Eventually, the German had the British plane in his sights. He opened fire, killing the British pilot and sending the aircraft crashing to the ground.
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