Major General von Lossberg, Chief of Staff Fourth Army, talking to aircraft designer Tony Fokker, who is seated in the cockpit of Fokker FI 102/17, while MvR and Lt Adam look on. Less than a month later, Lt Kurt Wolff would lose his life in this same machine (picture source: Beeldbank Stadsarchief Kortrijk).
MvR, Fritz Falkenhayn and the Forckenbeck-Gablenz sisters. (picture source: The Illustrated Red Baron - The life and times of Manfred von Richthofen - Peter Kilduff -Cassel & Co - 2000)
Waiting for the Kaiser, 20 August. The head-swadding is still evident beneath the cap. (Greg Vanwyngarden) (picture source: Inside the victories of Manfred von richthofen - Volume 2, James F. Miller, Aeronaut Books, 2016)
MvR as a member of Kampfgeschwader II, Kampfstaffel 8, (G. VanWyngarden)(picture source: Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 11 - Volume 1 - Bruno Schmäling - 2024 Aeronaut Books)
Quelle: BArch PH 17-I/97 (Seite 3) Das Gouvernement Köln gab die dort empfangenen Meldungen aus den neutralen Niederlanden zum Tod Richthofens vom 22. und 23. April 1918 per Fernspruch an den Kommandierenden General der Luftstreitkräfte weiter.
Die Aufnahme zeigt die drei Brüder von Richthofen. Karl-Bolko ist erst vier Jahre alt, Manfred bereits Kadett und in Uniform. Lothar ist zu dieser Zeit Schüler. Er ging erst nach seinem Schulabschluss zum Militär. (picture source: Die Erinnerungen der Mutter des roten Kampffliegers Kunigunde Freifrau von Richthofen. Im Verlag Ullstein - Berlin, 1937.)
In late August 1917, the new Fokker Dr.I Triplane was brought to the front by its designer, Dutchman Anthony Fokker. This picture shows a group of high-ranking German officers visiting JG1 at Marckebeke at this time. To the left of von Richthofen is Oberleutnant Fritz von Falkenhayn (son of General Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of the German General Staff), who had been a memberof BAO. Almost centre in the light coat is German Chancellor, Dr Georg Michaelis. The bearded man is General Friedrich Sixt von Arnim, commander of the German Fourth Army. (picture source: The Red Baron, a history in pictures, Norman Franks, 2016, Pen & Sword Books)
Local villagers and members of the AFC looking at the grave of MvR. Some of those villagers looking on may have been responsible for trying to dig it up that same night, objecting to the burying of a German in their local graveyard at Sailly-le-Sec, Somme. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021)
Victory 60 (picture source: Thomas La Padula - Aviation Art)
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