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March 6, 1917
"Schwarm I, led by Richthofen, took off at around 10:00 am, and as Schäfer later wrote: 'It was pretty hazy that morning. Geschwader II conducted a long flight without se...
February 10, 1917
Excerpt from Kurt Wolff's diary: "On the 6th, I attacked a B.E. at the same location with 50 rounds close up but it didn't go down. I shot it out with two Sopwiths (40...
March 27, 1918
"1635 hrs, one kilometre north of Chuignolles, south of Bray-sur-Somme. Bristol Fighter - 2, burned; Englishman. Seat of observer was closed, only one occupant. Weather:...
March 26, 1918
"1700 hrs, two kilometres north-east of Albert. RE old type, burnt; Englishman. A quarter of an hour after my first victory on this day, I detected in exactly the same sp...
March 26, 1918
"1645 hrs. Wood south of Contalmaison. Sopwith 1; burnt in the air. Englishman. Flying with five gentlemen of Jasta 11, at low level, I encountered a Sopwith single-seate...
March 25, 1918
"1555 hrs, above Bapaume-Albert road, near Contalmaison. Sopwith 1; burnt. Englishman (beginner). With five planes of Jasta 11, I attacked several low-flying English one-...
March 24, 1918
"1445 hrs, above Combles. SE5. Brought down behind the enemy's lines. During a protracted single-seater fight between ten SE5s and 25 machines of my own Group, I attacked...
November 30, 1917
"Combat Report: 1430 hrs, near Moevres. Englishman; burnt."
April 21, 1918
Below are excerpts of Norman Franks' and Alan Bennett's book 'The Red Baron's last flight'. It contains much more detail than below, and is the ultimate reference on the...
April 21, 1918
Below are excerpts of Norman Franks' and Alan Bennett's book 'The Red Baron's last flight'. It contains much more detail than below, and is the ultimate reference on the...
April 21, 1918
Below are excerpts of Norman Franks' and Alan Bennett's book 'The Red Baron's last flight'. It contains much more detail than below, and is the ultimate reference on the...
April 21, 1918
Below are excerpts of Norman Franks' and Alan Bennett's book 'The Red Baron's last flight'. It contains much more detail than below, and is the ultimate reference on the...
April 21, 1918
Below are excerpts of Norman Franks' and Alan Bennett's book 'The Red Baron's last flight'. It contains much more detail than below, and is the ultimate reference on the...
July 6, 1917
"On the ground not far away was a German observation post, manned on this day by Leutnant Hans Schröder. After the war he wrote a book An Airman Remembers. A former soldi...
April 29, 1917
"According to the survivor of this encounter, Lieutenant W. N. Hamilton, the British patrol was not an ordinary one, but one especially ordered to deal with the Baron and...
December 27, 1916
"First is a list of 29’s six pilots on this patrol, who took off from their base at le Hameau, at 1350 hours: Name...
April 21, 1918
Australian machine gun crew that brought down MvR. Sergeant Cedric B. Popkin is at the trigger handles of the Vickers machine gun. To his left is Harry Heywood, and...
October 28, 1916
"Boelcke and I had an Englishman right between us,when another opponent pursued by friend Richthofen cut in front of us. During the simultaneous lightning-quick evasive m...
April 21, 1918
1: The Approach. A section of von Richthofen’s flight, approaching from the east along the Somme River, leads an attack on a pair of British reconnaissance planes northea...
July 17, 1917
‘Reversing the arbitration ruling of 18 July, which ruled in favour of Vfw. Wüsthoff, on 26 July, Rittmstr. Frhr. v. Richthofen, as squadron commander, awarded the kill t...
November 23, 1917
"Above the Bourlon Forest, entire swarms of English squadrons are flying around, tightly packed in massed formations. Single-seaters and multi-seaters, aircraft of all ty...
July 15, 1917
"For a while, I had set up my field of activity close to the city of Courtrai and had been working there for quite some time. Then, around mid-July, the following happene...
July 6, 1917
"On a wonderful day (6 July 1917), I went on a fighter mission with my squadron. We had been flying around between Ypres and Armentières for quite a while without really...
March 12, 1918
"It is nine years since the greatest incident in my life happened. It finished my career as a flying officer but, as a Hun officer remarked, 'the war is finished for you'...