Death of Werner Voss - The epic last stand against 56 Squadron RFC | 48 victories
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- On the 23rd of September 1917, Leutnant Werner Voss took on some of the best pilots in the RFC in an epic dogfight that has been remembered as the defining aerial action of the First World War. Voss shocked all the British pilots with his expert flying ability, leaving them all with some bullet holes in their S.E.5as. After McCudden and Voss make a series of head on passes, Voss is fatally wounded by Hoidge and Rhys-Davids and crashes near Frezenberg, Beglium at only 20 years old.
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Sources
September Evening: The Life and Final Combat of the German World War One Ace Werner Voss by Barry Diggens
Lieutenant Der Reserve Werner Voss and the Pilots of Jasta 10 by Thomas Crean
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Art of Voss v. 56SQN by Ariel Alvarez / arielalvarezart
Music: ‘Legionnaire’, 'Golden hour' and 'Pathfinder' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
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Enjoy my first WWI video! Please let me know if the adjusted audio levels are better than the previous video.
Enjoyed every one of your vids, grade A as usual my friend.
Your video animation is superior. I don't understand why your view count declined.
The footage is amazing! WW1 is great for telling dogfights story! You got great angles and scenes well done! That ilustrated why only agressive aces could go intoo battle with results in the DR1, it was slower than its counter parts, climbed not so well, dove badly in comparaison, but was a lote more agile at slow speed and it could do those crazy flat turns that shocked the allies like in your story, but so it means if you got in a fight, you could not run away, you had to stay and win! Quite crazy!
Nothing wrong with the audio for me
Love it! Please do more WW1.
Had a long conversation with Chidlaw Robert’s , he told me he dived on what he regarded as a lone triplane but quickly realised he was outclassed by a fantastic pilot, thankfully Voss didn’t finish him off, so he force landed just behind no man’s land , becoming the last of the victims of Voss.
An excellent animation. well done! There was an equally epic but less well known solo engagement of enemy aircraft by Canadian ace Captain Billy Barker on October 27th 1918 flying the recently introduced Sopwith Snipe. The Snipe was the final development rotary engine aircraft of the War, powered by a 23Obhp Bentley BR2 engine though power was possibly as high as 250bhp and had a top speed of over 120mph at 10,000 feet. Barker had joined the RFC first as a rear gunner on observation planes but was soon promoted to single seater fighters. His skill and aggression saw him score 48 confirmed victories in Camels and in September 1918 he briefly returned to England but was soon back back at the front with the celebrated 201 squadron flying a new Snipe for evaluation. On October 27th he was ordered back to England again but couldn't resist one final patrol. Spotting a two seater Barker quickly shot it down. Moments later he was attacked by a Fokker Triplane and a bullet struck him in the left thigh, wheeling the Snipe round he despatched the Triplane. Turning to try to orientate himself he was shocked to find himself practically surrounded by upwards of 50 German fighters bent on revenge. Unable to escape Barker tried to shoot his way out and in the following melee managed to shoot down another three Fokkers in flames but suffered a serious wound to his right leg. Suffering from shock and loss of blood and a further severe wound to his left elbow an explosive bullet wrecked the Snipe's ignition and the fight was over, Barker managed a "falling leaf" descent only semiconscious. Managing a crash landing inside British lines he was rescued by Highland Infantry who had witnesses the whole fight and carried him to a front line first aid post. Miraculously he survived his wounds and was able to receive a VC from the King at Buckingham Palace on November 30th. He was credited with 53 confirmed victories. Sadly after returning to Canada he died in 1930 test flying a new Fairchild aircraft when the engine failed at low altitude and he fatally crashed.
I live in Krefeld (Werner Voss´ hometown). The "Werner Voss-Street" is just around the corner. There is the "Emil Schäfer-Street", too.
Very well done indeed!
A beautiful tribute to a brave and skilled airman.
well said.
Here in Maine we have the owlshead transportation museum. They have some ww1 Era aircraft that they fly. I was there when they gave a demonstration of a few planes. I was completely blown away when a fokker tri-plane turned completely sideways and pointed directly at another plane right next to it, just like the description of some of Voss's maneuvers
Maine's a great state. As you may already be aware one unconfirmed theory is that the WW1 ace Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli crash landed and died in Maine in their attempt to cross the Atlantic in 1927 before Charles Lindbergh. Somewhere near penobscott national Forrest. What do you think?
My Dad and I , when I was about 8 years old back in 1967 built every Great War airplane we could get are hands on. He taught me so much about them. The SPAD (best Allied plane) The Sopwith Camel (his favorite British plane) and Pup. The E1 and E3, The Dr1 (Richtoven's plane)and Dr3. The Fokker D7 (very capable) the Albatross (too slow) the Nieuport 17 (great plane) the SC5 Scout (so so plane) the DE Havilland and the heart stopping Gotha!! Even a Handley Page!! He would've loved the work you've accomplished here. Thanks for reconnecting me with the wonderful memories of those times I shared with my Dad. Warmest regards, RNB
I built the WW1 balsa airplane kits
Werner Voss came from my hometown.
Krefeld
Too bad that his body was never recovered and thus has no grave.
His fellow airman Emil Schäfer and Eugen Siempelkamp are both buried on our main cemetary.
I am pretty sure his body was recovered. by German troops. 3 bullet wounds. 2 from behind (Rys-Davids) and one from his Right side. Pretty sure the grave was lost shortly after due to artillery
Sorry, He was found by Britsh troops
@all
Yes his body was found, identified and left in the nearest crater.
By "recovered" I wanted to say: secured and brought back behind german lines.
Very good - thanks. To think my great grandfather might have witnissed this from the trenches near Poelcappelle. Just over two weeks later he was dead in the mud. "Dulce et Decorum est..."
The British flyers in this dogfight were absolutely elite McCudden, Cronyn, Rhys-Davids, Bowman, Mayberry, Hoidge - all legends. Must have been so fatiguing to fly as long as Voss did while outnumbered - I think the fight took around 10mins but probably felt a lot longer for him in that stressful situation.
Canada had the most aces for the size of the country in that war.
Gegen die deutschen Jagdflieger waren diese alle Anfänger
They're like King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table Lancelot, Galahad, Percival, Gawain etc.
Hoidge was Canadian.
Voss effectively shot down at least 2 of the SE5’s, whilst being severely outnumbered….incredible.
What a beautiful retelling of this amazing story. What strikes me the most, and seems to be a common theme amongst First World War accounts, is the tremendous respect these adversaries had for each other
This reminds me of the battle of the greatest ace of all times Erich Hartmann vs 8 Mustangs over Romania. He shot 2 down damaged a few and managed to eject safely after his BF109 could no longer fly. But he was nearly killed by a German sentry after he returned to base.
2023 Mustangs are given to Ukraine not more Tyranny
Hans-Joachim Marseilles was probably a better fighter pilot.
He died in 1942.
If he had survived to the end of the war (1945 - and beyond, as Eric Hartmann did) he would probably have had far more kills, and become more famous.
I never knew about him until this year!
Germany also had another extraordinarily outstanding WW2 (Stuka) pilot - Hans-Ulrich Rudel - who I had also not heard of until recently.
Interesting stuff.
Thank you UA-cam video creators! :-)
@@brianjones3191 Rudel was one of the most decorated pilots in the Luftwaffe. While he only scored 10 or 11 aerial kills he also sank a battleship and destroyed hundreds of tanks on the Eastern front in his Stuka. To top it of he flew his Stuka with either a crippled or even amputated leg at the end of the war.
The majority of his kills are made up, he couldn’t hit an aircraft unless he was around 50m away. Hans Marseille is the most accurate/confirms.
@@Athrun82 he was actually the only German awarded golden oak leaves to his knights cross. Also, received a rare wound badge in gold. He's been called the single most outstanding combat pilot in history. Unrepentant Nazi ideologue to his dying day vs. simply a young German man heeding the call of his country like nearly all young men do in war. Clearly a great warrior. Unfortunately, there's more than a few examples of brave warriors who aren't the best human beings. Nonetheless, a truly great warrior.
Outstanding work as usual, mate 👍
I really like the rendering on McCudden's SE5A 'G'. You have obviously put much effort into the details of each individual a/c, Voss' Dr.1 and 56 Sqn's SE5As with the corresponding pilots' names, serials and code letters. I like this format of your videos, please continue with more of these 🙂
A very nice piece of work! Thank you for putting in the effort and time to entertain us.
Thanks also for a very fitting tribute to my countryman and for showing us the esteem he was held in by his adversaries. There is hardly any higher praise, and it is a pitty that he had to pay with his life for it.
Greetings from Germany!
Great take on Voss’ last stand, man!! Great idea expanding into WWI stories too!
Personally think Voss was one of the greatest fighter pilots ever
Check out the final fight of Canadian ace Major Barker.
Greater odds, he shot down more of the enemy and survived.
There where four "F.I" Fokker triplane prototypes, the Fokker triplane was originally designed without the outer wing struts and the struts were added to instill confidence
The F.I prototypes were painted with blue dope instead of the green dope used on the production Dr.I
One was retained by the factory
One was sent to Austria for evaluation
One was given to Richthofen, who called it his "blue plane" and later passed it on to his friend Kurt Wolff who died while flying it
And Voss received one, if you look carefully at the photos of Voss's F.I you'll notice the tailplane has curved edges instead of the triangular tailplane of the Dr.I
This tailplane feature could've been unique to Voss's F.I, I can't say for sure, but there were difference among the prototypes
Thanks for all your hard work guys, one of the more entertaining channels on UA-cam in my opinion.
Nice touch of adding rotating wheels after lift-off. Really nice effort overall, thanks!
That is included in the flight sim, it’s not added
Fantastic work as always. Really enjoyed this one.
Thanks!! An excellent video with intense action for the quintissential WW1 dogfight!!
Cool video! WWI doesn't get the love it deserves. Good cinematography as always.
Thanks bro!
Liked this great combination of excellent animation and historical enactment.
Would love to see more of these.
In McCudden's book, he said that when they got back they knew that it had been one of the best German pilots and they spent the night debating if it was Richthofen, Wolff of Voss.
WW1 dogfights are so epic and cinematic, and you do such a great job! More ww1! :)
Magnificent video, the visuals and your narration are excellent. Thank you so much!
PS: What a sad story, the flower of European youth was massacred in WW1. Ethnically and demographically was a disaster of which we never recovered. WW2 was the last nail in the coffin.
These types of planes are incredible; and thank you for the wonderful video!
Could have ran away, but stayed in the fight like a true warrior. RIP to all the heros of both World Wars, whichever side. Great historical video sir, thank you.
Very nice video. WW1 airmen were the embodiment of the old kinghts.
Fantastic work!!!! Please can you make a Story about Oswald Boelke tragic death?
Kept thinking of that Black Adder episode were Flashart meets the Red Baron.
William Orpen's portraits, of Rhys Davis and Hoidge at the Western Front and of McCudden just prior to his death, are well worth a visit to the IWM. Orpen briefly talks of their sitting for him in his "An Onlooker in France."
Excellent production....as always!
Love it! Please do more WW1!
A time where men were truly brave and had respect for each other, definitely a gentleman’s code of conduct . Many thanks for posting this truly amazing story 👍
Excellent video about an amazing pilot! Thanks for creating this and sharing it!
7... 8 contro uno. Nessuno si ricorda di loro. E Voss è nella Leggenda.
What a great channel with awesome content! Thank you!! With both of my grandfather’s having served in WWII, I’ve always been a big history buff for that particular war. I’ve always loved that era of war birds like the Spitfire, F4U Corsair, P-51 Mustang, Fw 190, and the Messerschmitt Bf 109, etc. I have recently grown to appreciate these WWI bi/tri planes, especially the Fokker F.I/Dr.1 triplane. Damn, what a beautiful aircraft and the bravery those pilots displayed was unbelievable. It is fascinating learning the history of The Great War.
Coming across this video has just made my night. I remember first reading about Werner Voss in a book called 'They Fought For the Sky' by Quentin Reynolds in about 1960 (Pan Paperback, price 2/6) which my mother had bought. WW1 aces featured in my schoolboy imagination for several years. My mother's hero was Albert Ball. It was all quite an extra ordinary episode in history. Many thanks!
Canadian Roy Brown shot the Red Baron down.
That reminds me, I've a copy of 'They Fought For The Sky', must dig it out and read it again. Thanks!
@@mckessa17No, he did not. It has been proved that he was shot and killed by a foot soldier when he was flying back to the German lines. There is a documentary about it.
Edit: Spelling
@@paulocarvalho6480 Von Richtofen was shot through his back. That wound could only be made from an airplane not ground fire.
@@mckessa17 The killing shot entered the body near the last rib on the right side and exited near the left shoulder causing a fatal wound by going through the heart. Roy Brown was chasing the Baron (he was chasing a rookie pilot; I can't remember his name). Since nobody else was directly involved, common sense dictates that Roy had to keep the enemy plane straight ahead in line with his guns. From that perspective, it's impossible for Roy to have shot and killed the Baron. I, like many people, was convinced that it was Roy's shot that ended the fight. The documentary I referred was done in the early 2000's. It was done by an English historian.
Looking back at 100+ years, I'm amazed at how fragile the planes were and the courage those pilots had to even fly without a parachute. It must have been scary as hell.
This was much better than the usual You Tube video of this kind. Thank you!
Read about this, “dog fight” over and over- great to see it!
Splinded job!
Looking to see if Voss’s Aircraft had, “ax handles”- you’ve done your research 👍
Voss flew the preproduction Dr.I which was called F.I, without the "handles." But the dynamics of his fight are awesome in this video. Wild as I was imagining it in my teens when I read the descriptions in the books 30+ years ago.
Beautiful fights Soto! Great documentary to boot.
Great telling, well done. It would make such a dramatic ending to remind viewers the he was just 20 years old. Yup, TWENTY.
'Courage & Chivalry', qualities that are lacking in too many men nowadays.
Heroes to a man on both sides. Thanks a lot, great history.
A fantastic retelling of this battle
If there's one thing that fascinates me about WW1 is how incredibly British the names were. Especially those of the officer ranks...
This was your first WW1 video? Outstanding start! Keep up the great work!
That was great thanks. More please, such as Richthofen's duel with Lanoe Hawker, William Barker's epic fight, Keith Caldwell surviving jumping out of his aircraft, as a few examples.
Came here to drop the William Barker fight request
The greatest words of respect, praise and appreciation I dedicate to you for this wonderful and distinguished work
Thank you for your great giving and effort
I wish you lasting success. My utmost respect and appreciation
Excellent video, well researched and choreographed.
Perfect Sir. Great for all aircraft enthusiastd. many thanks for dedicating your time talent to the WW1 comunity. Salute!
Thankiu that was an amazing video!
I thank you for your great effort in providing accurate, useful and wonderful information on your esteemed channel. A thousand greetings of respect, appreciation and pride. I wish you success and progress in your wonderful work. Much respect
The CGI in this is so good...the pilots movements so real..
That was amazing and gripping. Thank you for that ❤
Amazing video, well made and explained.
There's a very good book about this combat called 'September Evening' by Barry Diggens, if it's still in print. Excellent video too.
A thousand greetings, great respect and admiration for your esteemed and wonderful channel, which provided accurate and useful information. I wish you lasting success. A wonderful work and a great effort that deserves pride, appreciation and pride. My utmost respect and appreciation to you
So tragic that such brave and able men had to die for a fight between imperial powers, and not from any animus of their own.
Well done. One point: the original source for the McCudden quotes is “Flying Fury: Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps” by James McCudden, 1918. And a tiny detail, that probably couldn’t be recreated in the video, but Voss, according to McCudden, was flying bare-headed.
Yes more ww1 aces story. What about the death of Albert ball.
Or Guynemer.
Excellent
Better to have tried to disengage than to go out like that but there are worse ways to die. A simply fantastic video.
The Triplane was slower than the RAF scouts.
No chance of outrunning his pursuers.
Great video! Thanks!
In German “W” is pronounced like an English “V” and “V” is pronounced like an “F” so Werner Voss is pronounced Verner Foss
funny. As an educated speaker in German, I would have said Werner (fat W) Voss (soft V).
@@hansvandiejie It would be pronounced just like FolksVaagen (Volkswagen)some Americanized German names like the actor Robert Wagner get pronounced in English with the soft W
Well done... Superb graphics and narrative. A very entertaining and informative video.
My favorite Ace of all Aces.
That was excellent
Epic and awesome video , great job !
Well done!
Hermann Goering owned the last original. Those now in museums around the world are good copies of the DR-1.
Check out the final combat of the Canadian RAF ace, Major William Barker.
He came up against the Richthofen circus, heavily outnumbered, shot down several aces and survived.
Greater skill, greater odds.
He was badly wounded.
Keep making these videos please.
Great graphics ! And great history !
Amazing story! Werner Voss was the real King Kong.
Very good !
Remarkable video. Well done!
Glorious
This is very good! I believe the SE 5 was more effective when it had a cowl mounted gun. How about doing some on Georges Guynemer. Not many Germans got away from him.
Agree more WW1
What a pilot voss was
Great vid!
Nicely done.
Voss was a legend
That was awesome ❤
I would beg to differ with the creator of this video with respect to which was the most iconic aerial battle of the First World War. I believe that distinction belongs to the Canadian ace, William Barker who, on Oct. 27, 1918 single-handedly engaged multiple flights of German fighter aircraft, was wounded four times, lost consciousness twice and yet shot down four German machines and survived the engagement. For this incredible action he was awarded the Victoria Cross. I think a video on this aerial battle definitely deserves a video of its own.
0:20 why the hell haven't I heard of it then, I'm amazed
Some reckon Voss was overfixated on getting his 49th and 50th victories before going on leave.
Moving to see a chivalrous response to Voss by his British opponents. I think because of the nature of those early fighters where the pilot was exposed, it had more of a man to man combat feel. Whereas, by the time of WW2, it was more machine v machine.
It's true that some airmen were "chivalrous", but it's certainly not true that all were that way.
In his book "Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps", Jimmy McCudden called Voss the bravest man he'd ever fought. "His flying was wonderful, his courage magnificent and in my opinion he is the bravest German airman whom it has been my privilege to see fight" - J. McCudden.
McCudden's friend Mick Mannock was the opposite. A few days after Voss was shot down, 56 Squadron held a party where Arthur Rhys Davids famously proposed a toast to the Red Baron, Von Richthofen himself! Mannock was incredulous --- it's been said Mannock had only two passions in his whole life: He hated Germans and he loved to kill them. So instead of joining the toast, Mannock angrily told the whole room "No. I won't drink a toast to that son-of-a-b*tch." McCudden tried to cover for his friend, later writing how the party was pooped by a non-flying officer who said "No, I will not drink to that devil", but in fact it was Mick Mannock, the un-chivalrous British ace who (some say) may have shot down more German airplanes than anyone else.
@@DaveGIS123 Interesting background and I have no doubt it's accurate.But I do think overall there was more 'humanity' expressed in WW1 in the air war. Though I have read in WW2,there were a few instances where humanity prevailed.I'm thinking of the Douglas Bader story where his artificial leg was dropped[parachuted?] onto a German occupied airfield in France by a British aircraft.The other instance which comes to mind occurred from memory in an dogfight over the south coast of England. Again from memory, superb airmanship by one combatant led to ammunition being expended by all participants.The enemy combatant was escorted by his opponents at least part of the way back to base.
Very nice!!
“Dogfights” covered this epic air battle of WW1.
Great video about one of the most interesting dogfights. I always wondered why Voss took this fight? I think he was war weary and somehow wanted an end.
voss- the bravest of the brave. i also like the color scheme you employed on Voss's triplane. there is a debate about that; that Voss flew a yellow nosed triplane because his squadron color was yellow. but this has not been proven definitively. you have colored Voss's triplane in the paint scheme that consisted of green streaked blue topside and blue underside. the triplane came from the factory in an overall light blue color; the green streaks were applied in the field. I go with your scheme as the accurate one.
I'm glad you noticed! I almost went with the yellow nose but decided on this one ultimately
@@sotocinematics And i think that you are right. an eyewitness to the crash said that the triplane was dark green. but it was in fading light, so i'm sure the witness ovverlooked the streaks.
Truly an epic battle by a great warrior however death is permanent. Voss violated the basic requirement of surviving that battle so he could show off! Thank you for this great video. I recently read about this battle and now you, Soto Cinematics have done an outstanding job of making this history come to life.
I believe that Voss knew he was doomed as he was heavily outnumbered and couldn't match the speed of the SE 5 if he tried to run. Maybe he felt that "I am going down but I am taking some with me" Voss was arguably the best dogfighter of the great war.
It seems to me that only a very manoeuvrable aircraft can pull this off for so long against multiple oponents. The problem is getting away when you aren't particularly fast.
Es ist unglaublich wie mutig diese Krieger waren sich in so eine fliegende Kiste die von Blumendraht zusammengehalten wurde zu setzen ohne Fallschirm auf dem Tank sitzend ohne jeden Schutz! Und dann wird geschossen oder bei harten Manövern zerfällt das Flugzeug! Unglaublich😏
I look forward to seeing more WW1 content.