[Red Baroness]

Originally Posted by FalkeEins

..according to Robert Skawran in an issue of Jägerblatt (Nov 1963) Oesau claimed his 127th during this combat...(see also his book 'Ikaros') - that should be easy enough to verify
The likelihood is that he was fatally wounded during the combat, rather than killed in the 'crash-landing'....
(again according to Skawran & repeated in Prien, JG 1&11 Teil2 P926). There is an 'eye-witness' account of the 'crash' in Erik Mombeeck's reprinted JG 1 series..

I tend to agree here. In other research I have come across that there were "fatal hits" into the cockpit area by the attacking forces.

And this is getting INTERESTING, I might add.