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Richthofen during the Kaiser military parade, 20 August. Although a military event that required attendance, photographs such as this reveal...

Inside the victories - Volume 2

MvR with fellow cadets in infantry Waffenrock. MvR is third one down in centre. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the...

The Red Baron photographic

Fähnrich (Officer Candidate) Manfred von Richthofen, 1912 (picture source: Red Baron, The Life and Death of an Ace, Peter Kilduff, A David &...

The Life and Death of an Ace

Zu Ostern tritt er in das Ulanen-Regiment 'Kaiser Alexander III. von Rußland' (westpreußisches) Nr. 1 als Fähnrich ein. Die Garnison befindet sich in Militsch bzw. Ostrowo direkt an der Grenze zum russischen Zaren-Reich.

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Hauptkadettenanstalt Berlin-Lichterfelde. Hier wurde Manfred von Richthofen zwischen 1909 und 1911 unterrichtet. Hier traf er Hauptmann von Salzmann, den er 1917 in Berlin-Grunewald beim Pferderennen wiedertreffen würde.

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Die Aufnahme zeigt die drei Brüder von Richthofen. Karl-Bolko ist erst vier Jahre alt, Manfred bereits Kadett und in Uniform. Lothar ist zu...

Mein Kriegestagebuch 1937

Da Vater Richthofen die militärische Karriere für seinen ältesten Sohn gewählt hatte, trat Manfred v. R. im August 1903 in die Kadetten-Anstalt Wahlstatt an der Katzbach (heute Legnickie Pole/ Polen) ein. Dort bewohnte er dieselbe Stube, die 50 Jahre zuvor Paul von Beneckendorf und von Hindenburg (späterer Generalfeldmarschall und Reichspräsident) bewohnt hatte. In das ehemalige Benediktiner- Kloster wurde 1840 die Kadettenanstalt einquartiert.

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Die Villa in der Striegauer Straße 10 in Schweidnitz, wohin die Familie 1901 zieht. Hier eine Aufnahme aus den 1930'er Jahren, nach Eröffnung des Richthofen-Museums.

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"Der rote Vogel", Manfred einsteigend (picture source: Die Erinnerungen der Mutter des roten Kampffliegers Kunigunde Freifrau von Richthofen...

Mein Kriegestagebuch 1937

MvR with his friend and former Uhlan officer Leutnant Alfred Gerstenberg. (L. Bronnenkant) (picture source: Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 11 -...

The Red Baron photographic

MvR in conversation with Leutnant Alfred Gerstenberg in front of MvR's Halberstadt D. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album o...

The Red Baron photographic

Front row (left to right): Konstantin Krefft, Richthofen, Eberhard Mohnike, Erwin Böhme. Back row (left to right): Wilhelm Reinhard, Carl von Schoenebeck, Guide Scheffer, Arnold Bockelmann, Hans-Helmuth von Boddien, Alfred Niederhoff, Justus Grassman.

Geschwader 71 'Richthofen'

Another shot of Lieutenant A.F.Bird of 46 Squadron, RFC after being shot down by MvR for his 61st victory. (picture source: The Red Baron, a...

The Red Baron photographic

Richthofen the man and the aircraft he flew

Victory 61. (picture source: The Illustrated Red Baron - The life and times of Manfred von Richthofen - Peter Kilduff -Cassel & Co - 2000)

The Illustrated Red Baron

Victory 61 (picture source: General Internet Search)

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Victory 61 (picture source: General Internet Search)

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Richthofen shares an apparently jocular moment with a relieved Algneron Bird, shortly after his downing. The strap of Richthofen's head band...

Richthofen the man and the aircraft he flew

(left to right) Hartmann, Plüschow, Krefft, Simon, Wolff, Esser, MvR, LvR, Hintsch, Brauneck, Matthof and Allmenröder. (picture source: Manf...

Geschwader 71 'Richthofen'

Einer von den achtzig Gegern. Abgeschossener Bristol Fighter, 5. April 1917. (picture source: Die Erinnerungen der Mutter des roten Kampffli...

Mein Kriegestagebuch 1937

Richthofen chats with Jasta 10 Oblt. Hans Klein during the First Fighter Competition at Adlershof, near Berlin, January 1918. The purpose of...

Inside the victories - Volume 2

MvR appointed OberLeutnant. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthof...

The Red Baron photographic

MvR visits Flieger-Abteilung 258 and Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia. (picture source: The Illustrated Red Baron - The life and times of Ma...

The Illustrated Red Baron

MvR showing his Pour le Mérite, Iron Cross 1st Class, Knight's Cross with Swords of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Duke Carl Eduard Medal Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Austro-Hungarian Military Merit Cross.

Under the guns of the Red Baron

Mein Kriegestagebuch 1937

Das erste Dutzend der von Richthofen abgeschossenen Apparate wird zum Abtransport in die Heimat verladen. (picture source: Der rote Kampffli...

Der rote Kampfflieger 1917

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Many thanks to Detlev Mahlo who kindly supplied the following information:
The photography is a rare aerial view of the airfield of the famous Jasta 2 (later: Jasta Boelcke) at Lagnicourt,which I had never seen before in such detail and quality. The photograph should be of some historical value for researchers and historians about WW1 air war.
In the lower right angle of two roads entering the village, you can spot the tents, which the Jasta (Jagdstaffel = fighter squadron) used for maintenance and covering of their aircraft. Near the road that goes to the bottom of the photo, we see a curved row of Albatros D.I or D.II scouts - the new fighter which regained air superiority for the Another Albatros can be seen a little further down and right - maybe just starting or landing. In the tent area we also find 3 Albatros.
Jasta 2 had its airfield at Lagnicourt from 22 September - 4 December 1916. It was commanded by Germany's top scoring ace at that time: Hauptmann Oswald Boelcke. The date the photo was taken lies only 5 days before Boelcke's death - he died in a flying accident on 28 October 1916. (Source: "The Jasta Pilots" and "Above the Lines", both Norman Franks & Frank Bailey, Grub Street, London).
It is most likely, that this aerial photography was made to trace and locate the Jasta's home field, as Jasta 2 was the most notorious fighter squadron of that time. (Boelcke alone had at this time shot down 38 enemy air-craft. Manfred von Richthofen was flying under Boelcke there, before he later became commander of his own Jagdstaffel 11).
I had made a detailed description of what the photo shows, in a forum of flight simulation. I know that is not a scientific or historical environment, but it may explain the detail a bit better.
http://combatace.com/topic/73097-aerial-photo-of-jasta-2-aerodrome-at-lagnicourt-october-1916/#entry575327">combatace.com/topic/73097-aerial-photo-of-jasta-2-aerodro...

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The famed "Ehrenbecher" given by the Generalluftzeugmeister to airmen after their first victory. (picture source: The Illustrated Red Baron...

The Illustrated Red Baron

The famed "Ehrenbecher" given by the Generalluftzeugmeister to airmen after their first victory. (picture source: Under the guns of the Red...

Under the guns of the Red Baron

Den Pokal 'Dem Sieger im Luftkampf' erhielt jeder Soldat, der eine gegnerische Maschine zum Absturz gebracht hatte.

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With KG2 on the eastern front. A: Prince Leopold of Bavaria, B: MvR. (picture source: The Illustrated Red Baron - The life and times of Manf...

The Illustrated Red Baron

Kampfgeschwader 2 members with a young MvR fourth from the right in the front row.

The Red Baron photographic

Folllowing pilot training, Richthofen flew Albatros two-seaters with Kampfstaffel 8 of Kampfgeschwader 2 over the Verdun sector. He seems subdued here in conversation with Kasta's 8 commanding officer, Hauptmann Victor Carganico, a pre-war military aviator and BAO veteran.

Geschwader 71 'Richthofen'

A young MvR with fellow observers during training. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ac...

The Red Baron photographic

Richthofen's bandaged digit is seen in this photograph with comrades (from left) Rittmeister Hans Freiherr von Köntitz, Leutnant Hans Reichs...

The Life and Death of an Ace