Event
Victory 57 - Recognition
July 14, 1917
Victory 57 - acknowledgement
Event type
Air Combat
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Event
Victory 57 - The Witnesses
July 2, 1917
Victory 57 - witness reports
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Final flight
April 21, 1918
"Second Lieutenant Wilfrid R May ('Wop'), a Canadian pilot flying with the newly formed No.209 Squadron (1 April 1918), was on his first combat mission over the area of t...
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Manfred alive in English captivity
April 22, 1918
Manfred lebend in englischer Gefangenschaft
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Victory 79 and 80
April 20, 1918
‘The phone went. The ever so friendly, obliging editors of the ‘Rundschau’ announced that Manfred had defeated his seventy-ninth and eightieth opponent. A great and joyfu...
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Victory 64
March 12, 1918
‘The army report then reported laconically that Manfred had won his sixty-fourth air war, Lothar his twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth.’
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Letter from Lothar
November 25, 1917
Brief von Lothar
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MvR wounded in the back of the head
July 6, 1917
MvR verwundet am Hinterkopf
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The newspaper
April 30, 1917
Die Zeitung
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The newspaper
April 10, 1917
Die Zeitung
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Victory 36
April 6, 1917
"…on April 6, the Schweidnitz "Daily Review" already reported to me the thirty-sixth kill."
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Victory 32
April 3, 1917
"…The further reports came like hammer blows, on April 3 the thirty-second victory;…"
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Victory 27 and 28
March 19, 1917
"On 19 March, the army report showed the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth, and the Silesian Provincial Diet sent a congratulatory telegram to the field: 'We commemorate t...
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Victory 25
March 8, 1917
"...Manfred's victory curve is rising steeply. I am experiencing all of this, but - how could it be otherwise! - there is also enough anxiety and worry in my thoughts. I...
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Major Hawker
November 23, 1916
"...Before I went to bed, I read my sons' letters again. The eleventh Englishman Manfred shot down was a Major Hawker, 26 years old. Prisoners said that he was the ‘Engli...
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Victory 80
April 20, 1918
"Combat Report: 1843 hrs, north-east of Villers-Bretonneux. Sopwith Camel, burned; Englishman. Three minutes after I had brought down the first machine, I attacked a seco...
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Victory 79
April 20, 1918
"Combat Report: 1840 hrs, south-west of Bois de Hamel. Sopwith Camel, burned; Englishman. With six planes of Jasta 11, I attacked large enemy squadron. During the fight I...
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Victory 78
April 7, 1918
"Combat Report: 1205 hrs, 500 metres east of Hill 104, north of Villers-Bretonneux. Spad, fell down; Englishman. I was observing, and noted that a Kette (three) of German...
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Victory 77
April 7, 1918
"Combat Report: 1130 hrs, near Hangard. SE5; broke up in the air. Englishman. With four machines of Jasta 11, I attacked several 'SE5's' near Hangard. I shot at an enemy...
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Victory 76
April 6, 1918
"Combat Report: 1545 hrs, north-east of Villers-Bretonneux, near east edge of Bois de Hamel. Sopwith Camel, burned; Englishman. With five of my planes of Jasta 11, we att...
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Victory 75
April 2, 1918
"Combat Report: 1230 hrs. Hill 104, north-east of Moreuil. RE 2; Englishman. Around 1230 I attacked, above the wood of Moreuil, an English RE at an altitude of 800 metres...
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Victory 74
March 28, 1918
"Combat Report: 1220 hrs. Forest near Mericourt. Armstrong - 2, burned; Englishman. Flying at a very low height, I saw shell explosions near the scene of a victory. Comin...
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Victory 73
March 27, 1918
‘The commander's report of his 73rd aerial victory reveals the drama that unfolded before his eyes within a minute: ’Shortly after I had shot my 72nd opponent on fire, I...
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Victory 72
March 27, 1918
"Combat Report: 1630 hrs, two kilometres west of Foucaucourt. Bristol Fighter - 2, burned; Englishman. With six machines of Jasta 11, I attacked enemy infantry flyers mol...