First Combat by David Pentland. (P) AIC5 Squadron Commander Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth

Squadron Commander Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth was reconnoitering

During the ensuing melee

Paper size 18 inches x 24 inches

One of the battles fought during the Hundred Years War

First Combat by David Pentland. (P) AIC5 Squadron Commander Arthur Wellesley BigsworthDP0169P. First Combat by David Pentland. Franco German border, 22md November 1939. While flying a routine border Frei Jagd for some reconnaissance Dorniers, eight Me109s of 3. JG2 were engaged by fourteen French Curtiss Hawks of GC II 4. During the ensuing dogfight, the first combat for the Richthofen Geschwader since WW1, two of the French fighters were shot down. The first by Lt Helmut Wick, was flown by the French ace Adjutant Camille Plubeau (14