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After two days - we were sitting comfortably at the Boelcke fighter squadron and celebrating my farewell - a telegram arrived from headquarters to say that Your Majesty had had the good grace to award me the Pour le mérite. Of course I was delighted. It was a plaster on the previous one. * I hadn't imagined it would be as nice to lead a hunting squadron as it turned out to be in reality. I never dreamed that there would one day be a Richthofen fighter squadron.
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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.
A postcard illustration published in the 1930s.
A postcard illustration published in the 1930s. (picture source: General internet search)
Alder magazine July 1939.
Alder magazine July 1939. (picture source: General internet search)
picture source: General internet search
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