Out on the Italian front the RAF are continuing to assist the Italians to fight off an Austrian offensive with ground attacks. Lieutenant Stirling Mansfield Robins from 28 Squadron RAF was hit by ground fire in his Sopwith Camel (B9310), forced to land and taken prisoner. Meanwhile his colleague Clifford MacKay McEwen claimed his 15th and 16th victories in his Camel (D8112) by shooting down two Berg D1s.
However, the big story of the day was the loss of the Italian’s leading ace (34 victories) Count Francesco Baracca, was killed flying ground attack missions in the Montello area. According to one story Baracca and his wingman Tenente Franco Osnago were hit by ground fire. In another Baracca had climbed to provide top cover for Osnago to carry out a ground attack but was hit by ground fire.
A few days later, on 24 June, Baracca’s remains were recovered from where they lay, four meters from the burnt remnants of his aircraft. His body showed a bullet to the head. His pistol was out of its holster, but away from his body, leading to suspicions that he had shot himself rather than die in a crash or be taken prisoner.
However, later evidence, suppressed at the time indicates that it is more likely he was shot down by Leutnant Arnold Barwig, the observer in an Austrian Phönix C.I (121.17), piloted by Max Kauer. The Austrian crew also photographed the shot-down aeroplane and noted the time and place of engagement.
Baracca and his SPAD
His aircraft were recognisable by the “prancing stallion” painted on the side. This may seem familiar and indeed it is. It was presented by his mother to Enzo Ferrari in 1929 and has been used on Ferrari cars ever since.
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The description you write referring to Osnago is completely wrong and came from publications in english language made by people that did not spoke a single word of italian and have very confuse and generic information about italian front operations. The right version of Osnago report was published in our book “italian air aces of WW1 and their aircrafts” published in USA by Schiffer Publ. in 2002. Austro Hungarian two seater crew claimed an incredible number of enemy aircrafts shot down that find little or no corrisponding losses from Allied documents. That he was shot down by Barwig two seater is possible but not proved. That evening there were fierce fighting on the ground over the Montello, bad wheather and huge artillery barrage.
As we know at wich hour Baracca started strafing on the Montello it should be interessant to know at wich hour the austrian crew claimed an enemy aircraft shot down, but at presents nobody have published the hour of the claim not the so called pictures of the shot down aircraft. I find fast impossible that within the artillery barrage they were able to make pictures of the Baracca aircraft. In fact the have never been published. Nor the italian, nor the Austrian version is convincing, both for political and propaganda reasons.