48 victory ace and probably the second best German pilot of the Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte behind the great Oswalde Boelke, Leutnant Werner Voss. He is wearing the Pour le Mérite (The Blue Max), the Knight’s Cross of the Order of the House of Hohenzollern, the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Pilot’s Badge.
On 23.9.1917, Leutnant Werner Voss, Jastaführer of Jasta 10, was shot down during a battle which lasted at least eight minutes and involved seven British pilots, themselves aces. Though Voss' machine gun fire damaged most of his opponents' aircraft, his own was hit by fire from at least two of the British aircraft. Voss was struck by three bullets.
His airplane, one of two prototype Fokker F.I triplanes (103/17), went into a steep dive and crashed north of Frezenberg, Belgium and Voss was killed. 57 victory ace Major James Thomas Byford McCudden, VC, DSO and Bar, MC and Bar, MM, one of the British pilots involved in the dogfight, later said of Voss:
"As long as I live I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single-handed fought seven of us for ten minutes and also put some bullets through all our machines. His flying was wonderful, his courage magnificent, and in my opinion he was the bravest German airman whom it has been my privilege to see fight". For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich