Last Flight
On September 12, 1916, a raid was conducted under the command of colonel Brant’s General Staff, with an air squadron of two airplanes including the “Ilya Muromets,” and 13 instruments. The aim of the raid was Borun, 12 versts from the enemy front line, and a nearest district, where, according to reports, the staff of a German division was based, at the junction of a narrow gauge railway, together with artillery and quartermaster’s storehouses and airdrome.
Farrukh's squadron penetrated into Krevo and dropped 100 pound bombs, forcing the enemy to retreat.
Six days later, on September 18, 1916, The Petrogradskiye Izvestiya newspaper wrote: “General headquarters report that our airplanes invaded the enemy’s rear in the Western front in Borun-Krevo district. Various posts were exploded by accurate bomb attacks, storehouses of the enemy were set on fire. Transportation facilities, railway stations and automobiles were also destroyed. Farrukh agha Gayibov and his team entered the battle with the enemy and destroyed four German airplanes. After destroying two Albatros airplanes, they fell into enemy’s territory and perished.”
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