Testimony of Lucien De Mulder

Testimony of Lucien De Mulder: ...Von Richthofen visited Heinrich at our house many times, but mainly to discuss future battle plans; often I saw both of them sitting in the front room bent over a ‘map’. Von Richthofen was a charming person; there were nevertheless ‘frictions’ between the pilots who were of noble birth and the others...What struck me most, when I was still so young, was the red ‘kite’ with which von Richthofen flew; he usually always took off at the head of the formation; he first took off in ‘chandelle’ and then, diving to the front line of the other planes that had meanwhile risen, they flew to the front.