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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 opponent was,...
June 10, 1915
"Richthofen worked hard at Cologne and was the first of the thirty to finish. Several did not qualify. On June 10, he was sent to the No. 6 Air Replacement Section at Grossenhain f...
August 21, 1915
"He was to report to an airdrome at Ghistelles, a village near Ostend, Belgium, on August 21, for duty with the Mail Pigeon Detachment."
September 1, 1916
"One afternoon, Oswald Bölcke appeared. He was on his way back to Germany from a tour of air groups in Turkey. The trip had been arranged by the high command with the double purpos...
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...
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 the Germa...
February 13, 1917
"The army might be on the defensive, and the Air Service, too, but not Richthofen. He spent the first two weeks of February going over tactics with his squadron and meeting with it...
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...
March 20, 1917
"Richthofen rarely saw his victims' bodies. Orderlies were sent to the crash sites to get information necessary for reports and to collect souvenirs. Several days after his double...
May 1, 1917
"After the meeting with Hoeppner, Richthofen toured almost every department in the building, including 'Airplanes', which recorded air victories, kept track of personnel, systemati...
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...
December 28, 1917
"The Richthofen brothers arrived in Brest-Litovsk in mid January, and had their first look at Bolsheviks, which was fascinating to the unworldly young Prussians. Contrary to the Ge...
March 15, 1918
"One of the many squadrons that were ordered to support the great offensive was Lieutenant Ernst Udet's Jasta 37. On March 15, Udet was told to move his group to Le Cateau and supp...
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