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July 6, 1917
"The man who shot Richthofen down that 6th of July morning was Flight Commander Albert Edward Woodbridge, who was a Second Lieutenant at the time and was acting as observ...
April 2, 1917
"But now comes the third account of the affair, and this one is from Lieutenant Peter Warren, who was the pilot of the plane Richthofen shot down. His observer was Sergea...
April 2, 1917
"Concerning the visit of the two brothers to the scene of Powell and Bonner's fatal crash, Lothar wrote: "It was a sad sight which we saw. Half of the machine was hanging...
April 2, 1917
"The flying Uhlan took a photograph of the wrecked plane in which he killed Lieutenant J. C. Powell and Air Gunner P. Bonner. It remains, with his notations on the back o...
January 23, 1917
"Just to show them how it was done, he led them over the English lines for the first time on January 23d and 'knocked down' the first victim to be registered on the unit'...
July 6, 1917
"A lieutenant in an air-observation post about a mile away had seen Richthofen's fall through his telescope and rushed to the spot under the two circling scouts. When he...
February 14, 1917
"He said in his report that the pilot had been killed in the air and the observer seriously wounded when the B.E.2 crashed into German trenches. The opposite was true. Se...
February 1, 1917
"Twenty minutes after the pilot and his observer, both mortally wounded, were dragged from their airplane, a Canadian artillery battery blew it to splinters to deny it to...
September 18, 1916
"Bölcke was not only the commander of Jasta 2, but also its mentor, so the battle was analyzed the next day, when the weather was too bad for patrols. He had stayed above...
November 23, 1916
"The pilot of the bullet-nosed Albatros that now followed Hawker around a tight circle at 3,000 feet near Bapaume, two miles inside German lines, did not know who his opp...
April 22, 1918
‘A. Roy Brown, the Canadian captain whose bullet killed Manfred von Richthofen, said the following about the dogfight he had with Manfred von Richthofen and in which the...
March 6, 1917
"While Manfred von Richthofen achieved his 24th victory on the afternoon of 6 March, her very nearly did not survive the morning. As he recorded in both his book and in a...
April 13, 1917
‘Lothar is a ’shooter" and not a huntsman My father makes a distinction between a hunter (huntsman) and a shooter who just enjoys shooting. When I have shot down an Engli...
July 22, 1917
"Oblt. Reinhard (Jasta 11) 11.30 morning. Warneton, this side, Sopwith-2, as 1st (first disputed between Lt. Deilmann, Vfw. Küllmer (Jasta 6) and Oblt. Reinhard (Jasta 11...
July 21, 1917
"FwLt. Schubert (Jasta 6) 8.25 in the evening west of Roubaix, Spad-1, as 2nd (first disputed still with Lt/ Mahnicke, Jasta 11; on 26 July decided by Rittmstr. Frhr. v....
July 17, 1917
"Lt. Tüxen (JASTA 6) at 21:05 east of Komen, a Sopwith Camel B3779 of Lt. C.S. Werkman of 70th SQDN. Initially, there is some discussion whether Lt Tüxen, Lt Deilmann or...
September 26, 1916
"In all my life I have never known a more beautiful hunting ground than in the days of the Battle of the Somme. When you got up in the morning, the first Englishmen were...
September 14, 1916
MvR and Boelcke look at the D.H.2 Boelcke shot down as his 24th victory.
March 6, 1917
Combat report Lt Benbow
March 27, 1918
They came en masse
September 1, 1917
Victory 60
August 26, 1917
Victory 59
August 16, 1917
Victory 58
July 6, 1917
MvR wounded