2nd Lieutenant Events | Meet The Red Baron

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April 30, 1917

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Excerpt of Lewis' correspondance with Dale Titler.

April 20, 1918

"Forty-eight years after his fall, D. G. Lewis tells of his brief and almost fatal encounter with the Kaiser's "Red Devil", as published in Dale Titler's 'The day the Red Baron Die...

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Victory 73

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: fine, some...

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Victory 70

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 spot, at an...

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Victory 68

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-seaters no...

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Victory 49 - Hamilton's version

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 his pilot...

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Victory 10 - Kofl 1. Armee

November 20, 1916

"Kofl 1st Army Weekly Activity Report: Air combat successes: on 20 November 1916, at 4:15 p.m. near Gueudecourt (sic) by Lt. Frhr. v. Richthofen, Fighter Squadron 2."

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Victory 09 - Kofl 1. Armee

November 20, 1916

"Kofl 1st Army Weekly Activity Report: Air combat successes: on 20 November 1916 at 9:40 a.m. south of Grandcourt by Lt. Frhr. v. Richthofen, Fighter Squadron 2."

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Victory 08 - Kofl 1. Armee

November 9, 1916

"Kofl 1st Army Weekly Activity Report: Air combat successes: B.E. two-seater shot down on 9 November 1916 at 10:30 a.m. near Beugny by Lieutenant Frhr. von Richthofen, Fighter S...

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Victory 04 - Kofl 1. Armee

October 7, 1916

"Air combat successes: On 7 October, Lieutenant von Richthofen shot down an English single-seat biplane near Equancourt. The occupant, Lieutenant Fenwick, was killed. The aircraft...

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Wounded

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 getting in...

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Victory 64 - Clutterbuck's account

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', meaning...

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MvR wounded - Woodbridge's version

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 observer for Pil...

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First kill for jasta 11

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's victory...

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Shortly after crash-landing

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 and a corp...

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On victory 20

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. Second Lieut...

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Bölcke's analysis of MvR's first victory

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 the battl...

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