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April 20, 1918
"Forty-eight years after his fall, D. G. Lewis tells of his brief and almost fatal encounter with the Kaiser's "Red Devil", as published in Dale Titler's 'The day the Red...
July 29, 1917
"...The entire squadron has now driven to Kortryk for the transport of Brauneck's body. The Rittmstr. stayed here because he can't endure standing for long......The Rittm...
July 16, 1917
"...I've made two drawings of Richthofen, unfortunately both with his bandages. Many other gentlemen have been drawn as well, but I am very unhappy that I haven't really...
July 14, 1917
"Dear Lise! I'm currently visiting Rittmstr. von Richthofen in the hospital where he is lying in a room with Lt. Wolff. He's just now being bandaged and in the meantime I...
July 12, 1917
"Dear Lise! Don't be mad if I don't write to you much now. It's a very hectic life here, the airmen take off and return all day long, on nice days they go up 4 times and...
July 15, 1917
"Drawing of the Rittmstr. completed in the morning. The nurses visited Markebeke...went back to Courtrai with the nurses at 5:00 p.m. and began a new portrait of Richthof...
July 14, 1917
"Drawing of Rittmstr. von Richthofen started in the morning."
July 11, 1917
"Shortly after the first takeoff, a message came by telegraph that Lt. Wolff had been shot through the right hand but had landed his airplane safely and was then taken to...
July 16, 1917
"About 10 days ago...he received a powerful ricochet to the back of his head - he just managed to land and grumble a few words, then lost consciousness. Now he's sitting...
July 6, 1917
"...There had been a hot time in Ghent. According to his comrades, Richthofen had been in higher spirits than ever before. Everybody, the Richthofen Staffel and the neigh...
July 5, 1917
"Arrived in Courtrai around 12:00 p.m. and reported to Hauptmann Altvater......Altvater announced my arrival by telephone to the Richthofen Jagdstaffel, which picked me u...
June 7, 1917
Suddenly, there was great excitement at Courtrai's Field Hospital 61 {76}. An attendant stormed into the hall: 'Sister, Richthofen has been wounded, shot in the head, he...
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..."Our Schwarm II had been out in the morning without accomplishing anything. Swarm I got itself ready. Richthofen wanted to come along but had to stay home because of a...
March 5, 1917
..."Yesterday, the Staffel shot down no less than five English apparatuses, two of which crashed on fire, one burst in the air and two others smashed to the ground. The L...
July 19, 1917
"Carl-August von Schoenebeck brought up another side of Richthofen's personal conduct in one of his conversations with Bruno Schmäling: 'In July 1917 he had a significant...
April 29, 1917
"On the ground, after duty, Richthofen was like a boy with a wonderful sense of humour. While Jagdgeschwader I was stationed at Marckebeeke, Richthofen nicknamed (WIlhelm...
August 20, 1917
Carl Deilmann, a pilot who flew with Jasta 6 in the spring and summer of 1917, wrote the following to Dr. Heinz Penzlin of 'Die Welt' on 3 May 1978, copy Bruno Schmäling...
September 25, 1917
Alois Heldmann, who flew with Jasta 10 from November 1916 until the end of the war, confirmed MvR's relationship with NCO's in a conversation with Bruno Schmäling in 1975...
April 23, 1918
Walter Böning, Staffelführer of Jagdstaffel 76, first met MvR on 14 April 1918. When asked about Richthofen as a person, Böning said to Bruno Schmäling in 1975: "I only m...
December 7, 1917
Franz Hemer, a pilot in Jagdgeschwader I's Jasta 6 from September 1917 until the end of the war, explained during a long telephone conversation with Bruno Schmäling in 19...
December 6, 1917
Johann Janzen, pilot and later Staffelführer of Jagdstaffel 6 in Jagdgeschwader 1 from 16 October 1917 to 9 June 1918, reported to Alex Imrie: "Richthofen had an incredib...
December 5, 1917
Wilhelm-Gisbert Groos writes to Alex Imrie: "He gave you the feeling that he was never afraid, and that gave us courage and also helped us overcome some of our own fear....
December 4, 1917
Carl-August von Schoenebeck, who served with MvR in Jasta 11from July 1917 trhough January 1918, characterized his Geschwaderführer in this way during a conversation with...
April 21, 1917
"I met the 'older' Richthofen at Jasta 4 in Douai on the 17th. But that of course is the wrong expression and he made a great impression on me. He is actually quite young...