- 5 October – Sergeant Joseph Frantz and Corporal Louis Quenault of the French Escadrille VB24 are the first aviators in history to shoot down another aircraft with gunfire, downing a German Aviatik B.II with machine gun fire from their Voisin III over Jonchery, Reims.
First air-to-air combat victory - Frantz and Quénault.
Saturday, 5 October 2024
Today in 1914
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World War One
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