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Werner Voss [Germany]

Name:Werner Voss
Country:Germany
Rank:Leutnant
Squadrons:KG 4
Jasta 2, 5, 10, 14, 29
Victories:48
Born:13 April 1897
Place of Birth:Krefeld
Died:23 September 1917Killed In Action
Place of Death:North of Frezenberg
Ordre Pour le Mérite (Blue Max)
Knight's Cross with Swords of the Hohenzollern House Order
Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class
Werner Voss

Notes
Killed during a legendary dogfight with seven S.E.5a's, Werner Voss drove two planes to the ground and damaged the rest before his Fokker DR.I was shot down by Arthur Rhys Davids.

Quotes
"I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single handed, fought seven of us for ten minutes . . . I saw him go into a fairly steep dive and so I continued to watch, and then saw the triplane hit the ground and disappear into a thousand fragments, for it seemed to me that it literally went into powder." James McCudden

"If I could only have brought him down alive..." Arthur Rhys Davids to James McCudden

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