At that time he wanted to be a great cavalry general

That's how Manfred got through his time as a cadet, even though this type of education and youthful treatment didn't suit him too well. But he gritted his teeth and never complained during all the holidays he spent at his parents' house. However, he told me, his younger brother, on several occasions: ‘If you can, do without the pleasure, it's not nice in the pub either, but it's still better.’ Manfred had decided very early on that he wanted to be an officer, and he had probably always been determined to achieve extraordinary things in the career he had chosen. At that time, however, he was thinking of becoming a great cavalry general. Little did he realise that he would become the first not on terra firma, but in the skies.