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June 25, 1917
"As Gen von Hoeppner pointed out in his memoirs: "Due to his number and his sporting spirit, the Englishman was always our most dangerous enemy and the British Front requ...
June 9, 1917
"During Richthofen's second visit to Bad Kreuznach he met Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who made a special impression on him: "The Czar is a tall, stately gentleman with an...
May 6, 1917
"I do not want to over-react, but I have the sinister feeling that the gentlemanly British will not be able to settle the matter quite so according to plan as they have i...
May 3, 1917
"Richthofen, too, was no courtier, but he knew the role he had to play. The following day Ltn Krefft, who delayed his own leave to enjoy life among the luminaries of the...
May 3, 1917
"Richthofen found his midday appointment at the Kurhaus much more to his liking. He recalled: "It was my birthday and someone must have divulged that to His Majesty and s...
May 2, 1917
"Manfred von Richthofen was in the company of some of the most important people in Germany on his 25th - and last - birthday. In the morning he reported to the luxurious...
April 26, 1917
"On Thursday 26 April Jasta 11's daily message traffic brought news that, on orders of Kaiser Wilhelm, the unit would henceforth bear the name Jagdstaffel Richthofen. Jas...
April 12, 1917
"On the evening of 11 April, Prof Dr Georg Wegener, a correspondent for Die Kölnische Zeitung, had arrived at La Brayelle. To impress this guest, Richthofen had a telesco...
February 21, 1917
"Lothar von Richthofen recalled his brother's early combat missions with Karl Allmenröder and Kurt Wolff: "At the time both had no experience at all and in aerial com...
June 20, 1916
"A few days ago I nose-dived into the ground with my Fokker. Witnesses were more than a little astonished when, after quite some time, I crawled out of the heap of rubble...
June 14, 1916
"His Staffel leader, Victor Carganico, recalled: "At the time he came to my Staffel as a two-seater pilot, he was already urging that I send him for two or three days to...
May 1, 1916
"Richthofen flew to Sivry for the funeral [of Holck], just one of many such events, both modest and elaborate, that he would attend within the next two years."
April 2, 1918
"While the celebrations of these victories were being held in the Staffel messrooms that night, the ace spent the evening in his own hut reading. Manfred had a nerve cont...
April 2, 1918
"Newton, the observer, was highly praised, not by name, but by reference, on the afternoon of his death, when Richthofen sat over a late lunch at the squadron's advance q...
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'...
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...
June 10, 1917
"The ace was needed back at the front. He received orders cancelling his extended leave, and on June 10th, he reported for duty at General Headquarters at Kreuznach. Ther...
April 13, 1917
"As a matter of fact, I had been allowed to bag only forty-one. Anyone will be able to guess why the number was fixed at forty-one. Just for that reason, I wanted to avoi...
April 11, 1917
"Among the chief properties of a good pursuit plane (he wrote in a secret opinion to the technical staff) are the following: a good plane must not lose altitude even when...
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...
March 1, 1917
"The English single-seater pilots always fly in squad formation when on pursuit work. Reconnoitering and artillery fire is also now carried on by squads of two-seater mac...
February 16, 1917
"To the Commander of the Sixth Army air forces: The adversary often slips downward over one wing or lets himself fall like a dead leaf in order to shake off an attack....