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Red Barons Fokker at Bertangles now being guarded from souvenir hunters

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The remains of 425/17 after being shot down and picked through for souvenirs. (picture source: Inside the victories of Manfred von richthofen - Volume 2, James...

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17GW491 Two Spandau IMG 08 were fitted to the cowling of the Fokker Triplane. On the Red Baron's last fight one of the weapons had ceased to function and the ot...

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17GW494 Two machine guns from Richthofen's aircraft. Left to right: Lieutenant N. Mulroney (pilot); Lieutenant O G Witcomb (observer) and Lieutenant F J Mart (o...

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The crudely altered Balkenkreuze taken from the right side of Von Richthofen's Fokker Triplane 425/17 which was auctioned in London in 1994. It had been cut fro...

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The Balkenkreuze taken from the left side of the same Fokker Triplane which currently resides in the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto, given to them...

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The remains of 425/17 being picked clean. Note the Maxim machine guns leaning on the tubular steel airframe. (picture source: Inside the victories of Manfred vo...

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AFC pilots looking at the wreckage of the Red Baron's Fokker Triplane. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ac...

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Le Rhone Engine of the Fokker Dr. I in which MvR died. (picture source: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search Engine)

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MvR's fur boots. (picture source: The Illustrated Red Baron - The life and times of Manfred von Richthofen - Peter Kilduff -Cassel & Co - 2000)

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MvR's seat, with the alleged bulletholes. (picture source: The Illustrated Red Baron - The life and times of Manfred von Richthofen - Peter Kilduff -Cassel & Co...

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The cat mascot that would survive him. (picture source: Manfred von Richthofen, The man and the aircraft he flew, David Baker, 1990, Outline Press)

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