Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (B) SIG1419 Hugely outnumbered

Hugely outnumbered

Boelckes final tally was 40 victories

fly together en route to Cologne in the late evening of 3rd July 1943

making sure that nothing goes wrong on the next trip

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (B) SIG1419 Hugely outnumberedDHM1813B. Hansa Brandenburg W. 12 Attack on the C. 17 by Ivan Berryman. On the morning of 21st April 1917, coastal airship No C. 17 was on a routine patrol captained by Sub Lieutenant E G O Jackson, when sometime around 8. 00am, she was attacked by German seaplanes and shot down. Such was their vulnerability that these huge battlebags were an easy target for marauding enemy scouts, their single Lewis guns achieving little by way of defence. The Hansa