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Old 29 March 2001, 10:56 AM   #1
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Was just reading about A-H ace Julius Arigi shooting down (with the help of Maier and Kiss) 3 big Caproni's in one mission. I was wondering were there any other big days (2+ Victories) against the big bombers .... i.e Gothas, Capronis, etc. ? Any nation - any flier. I don't mean multiple victories over recon types - just the big'uns.

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Old 29 March 2001, 11:58 AM   #2
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John,

On 18/2/16 A-H Ace Heinrich Kostrba of Flik 4 was credited with downing 3 Italian aircraft...

2 of them were Caproni Ca1 bombers (serial # Ca.478 and Ca703).

Kostrba was flying Fokker Eindecker #03.51.

Not a bad days work!

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Old 29 March 2001, 12:15 PM   #3
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in a Fokker monoplane? Wow! not bad at all! of course, relatively speaking it might have been much better at the time this was accomplished, but I thought the old E.I-III series was on the outs at that time.
 
Old 29 March 2001, 02:14 PM   #4
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Fokker monoplanes were used by the kuk LFT until august 1916 on the Italian front when they were shifted to the Eastern Front. Brandenburg D1 and C1 took their place.

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Old 30 March 2001, 02:24 PM   #5
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Didn't Arch Whitehouse blast a Gotha or two out of the sky? He seems to have done just about everything else (including getting shot down by Richthofen - why should Hartney be the only one, right?). Sorry, that was pretty mean I guess....
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