Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "The Drydock - Episode 217" video.

  1. 6:11 On the 30th of September 1915. a Serbian gunner named Radoje "Raka" Ljutovac used an example similar to the one in the background to shoot down a German Rumpler C.I bomber over the town of Kragujevac. The downed airplane was part of a 7-bomber formation (other 6 aiplanes being AEGs) that bombed Kragujevac (mostly the arms factory but also the railway station, warehouses and the town itself) with 45 bombs (resulting in 5 killed and 10 wounded soldiers and civillians). The pilot Kurt von Scheffer and the observer Otto Kirsch were both killed. The gun used was a Krupp 75mm captured from the Ottoman Turks during the 1st Balkan War. The gun was probably chosen for the infrequent AAA role due to the limited amount of captured shells which was difficult to restock.
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