MvR flies to HQ to meet Kaiser Wilhelm II, Ludendorff and Hindenburg
‘Flight home Fifty are shot down. I thought fifty-two was better. That's why I shot down two more on the same day. It actually went against the agreement. I had...
MvR clambering into a Rumpler C.I together with Leutnant Konstantin Krefft after a stopover in Cologne whilst they were on their way to Germany. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021)
‘Flight home Fifty are shot down. I thought fifty-two was better. That's why I shot down two more on the same day. It actually went against the agreement. I had...