Beyond the legend of the Red Baron

25. Juni 1917

Kommandeur des Jagdgeschwaders 1

„Wie General von Hoeppner in seinen Memoiren hervorhob: „Aufgrund ihrer zahlenmäßigen Überlegenheit und ihres Kampfgeistes waren die Engländer stets unser gefäh...

Posing in front of a Pfalz triplane are, from left: Ltn Auer, Pfalz construction chief and firm co-owner Ernst Everbusch, Hptmn Willy Meyer of Kogenluft staff, Hptmn Albert Mülig-Hofmann, Ltn Krefft, Rittm von Richthofen, Obltn Fritz von Falkenhayn of the Kogenluft staff, Jasta 12 leader (and later JG III Kommandeur), Obltn Adolf Ritter von Tutschek, Dipl-Ing Ernst Schlegel of the Pfalz testing staff, company founder and co-owner Alfred Everbusch, Obltn Rist, an unknown person, and Pfalz test pilot Stuckmann.

Among the staff officers accompanying General Sixt von Armin was the Officer in Charge of Aviation, Hauptmann Helmuth Wilber, who made his own inspection of JG 1 accompanied by Richthofen and Bodenschatz.