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Victory 69
March 26, 1918
"1645 hrs. Wood south of Contalmaison. Sopwith 1; burnt in the air. Englishman. Flying with five gentlemen of Jasta 11, at low level, I encountered a Sopwith single-seater at the F...
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Victory 67
March 24, 1918
"1445 hrs, above Combles. SE5. Brought down behind the enemy's lines. During a protracted single-seater fight between ten SE5s and 25 machines of my own Group, I attacked an Englis...
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Victory 63
November 30, 1917
"Combat Report: 1430 hrs, near Moevres. Englishman; burnt."
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Victory 62
November 23, 1917
"Above the Bourlon Forest, entire swarms of English squadrons are flying around, tightly packed in massed formations. Single-seaters and multi-seaters, aircraft of all types. At 2...
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Victory 32 - Lieutenant Peter Warren's account
April 2, 1917
"But now comes the third account of the affair, and this one is from Lieutenant Peter Warren, who was the pilot of the plane Richthofen shot down. His observer was Sergeant R. Dunn...
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Victory 32 - visit to the crash site
April 2, 1917
"Concerning the visit of the two brothers to the scene of Powell and Bonner's fatal crash, Lothar wrote: "It was a sad sight which we saw. Half of the machine was hanging from a ro...
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Victory 32 - Lothar's account
April 2, 1917
"The flying Uhlan took a photograph of the wrecked plane in which he killed Lieutenant J. C. Powell and Air Gunner P. Bonner. It remains, with his notations on the back of it, in o...
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On victory 19
February 1, 1917
"Twenty minutes after the pilot and his observer, both mortally wounded, were dragged from their airplane, a Canadian artillery battery blew it to splinters to deny it to the Germa...
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Victory 60
September 1, 1917
"On 1 September, the Rittmeister climbs into one of the new triplanes for the first time for aerial combat. (Paragraph II of the army order of 12 August does not concern him, total...
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Letter from Lothar
November 25, 1917
Brief von Lothar
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Victory 36
April 6, 1917
"…on April 6, the Schweidnitz "Daily Review" already reported to me the thirty-sixth kill."
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Victory 32
April 3, 1917
"…The further reports came like hammer blows, on April 3 the thirty-second victory;…"
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Victory 25
March 8, 1917
"...Manfred's victory curve is rising steeply. I am experiencing all of this, but - how could it be otherwise! - there is also enough anxiety and worry in my thoughts. I know only...
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MvR writes his mother
October 5, 1916
MvR schreibt seine Mutter
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Victory 78
April 7, 1918
"Combat Report: 1205 hrs, 500 metres east of Hill 104, north of Villers-Bretonneux. Spad, fell down; Englishman. I was observing, and noted that a Kette (three) of German planes pu...
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Victory 74
March 28, 1918
"Combat Report: 1220 hrs. Forest near Mericourt. Armstrong - 2, burned; Englishman. Flying at a very low height, I saw shell explosions near the scene of a victory. Coming nearer I...
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Victory 72
March 27, 1918
"Combat Report: 1630 hrs, two kilometres west of Foucaucourt. Bristol Fighter - 2, burned; Englishman. With six machines of Jasta 11, I attacked enemy infantry flyers molesting our...
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Victory 69
March 26, 1918
"With 5 men of Jagdstaffel 11 at low altitude, I met a Sopwith monoplane at the front with Leutnant Udet. At first the enemy tried to evade me by flying skilfully. I shot him down...
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Victory 67
March 24, 1918
"In a prolonged single-seat fight between about ten S.E. and 25 aircraft of my squadron, I attacked an Englishman at an altitude of 2500 metres. Both wings of the aircraft broke of...
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Victory 65
March 13, 1918
"Combat Report: 1035hrs, between Gonnelieu and Banteux, in square 1853. Sopwith Camel. Englishman, Wounded. I started with Jasta 11 and fought later on with two Staffels of my grou...
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Victory 63
November 30, 1917
"And then the dance of death of the afternoon begins. Five Englishmen are shot down, including the commander's 63rd aerial victory. His meagre report: "With Lieutenant v. Richthofe...
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Victory 56
June 25, 1917
"Combat Report: 1840 hrs, above trenches near le Bizet, other side of the line. RE plane. I was flying together with Leutnant Allmenröder. We spotted an enemy artillery flyer whose...
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Victory 54
June 23, 1917
Victory 54?
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Victory 53
June 18, 1917
"Combat Report: 1315 hrs. Hof Struywe, Square V.42., this side of the line. RE2 (burnt). Accompanied by my Staffel, I attacked at 2.500 metres north of Ypres, on this side of the l...