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Gotha decoration
November 9, 1916
"One of them appeared to be someone of particular consequence. He wore peculiar epaulettes and the distinctive trousers of a general. His face was young, and the star of...
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Cheese and eggs
May 1, 1915
"So it was that toward the 1st of May, he received instructions to prepare himself for another duty in the service of supply, still farther back from the front lines. Str...
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First battle - first retreat
August 21, 1914
"It was on August 21st, in the little Belgian village of Etalle, twenty miles from the frontier, that Richthofen received orders to make a mounted reconnaissance toward t...
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Mrs. von Richthofen on child development
May 2, 1900
"An easily terrified mother is a great obstacle to the physical development of children,' Mrs von Richthofen said. 'When Manfred was a little boy, I believe many of my fr...
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Ernst Udet joins MvR
March 15, 1918
"One of the many squadrons that were ordered to support the great offensive was Lieutenant Ernst Udet's Jasta 37. On March 15, Udet was told to move his group to Le Catea...
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Peace talks with Russia
December 28, 1917
"The Richthofen brothers arrived in Brest-Litovsk in mid January, and had their first look at Bolsheviks, which was fascinating to the unworldly young Prussians. Contrary...
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Shortly after crash-landing
July 6, 1917
"A lieutenant in an air-observation post about a mile away had seen Richthofen's fall through his telescope and rushed to the spot under the two circling scouts. When he...
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MvR is asked to write his memoirs
May 1, 1917
"After the meeting with Hoeppner, Richthofen toured almost every department in the building, including 'Airplanes', which recorded air victories, kept track of personnel,...
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A postcard from Baron von Riezenstein
March 20, 1917
"Richthofen rarely saw his victims' bodies. Orderlies were sent to the crash sites to get information necessary for reports and to collect souvenirs. Several days after h...
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On victory 20
February 14, 1917
"He said in his report that the pilot had been killed in the air and the observer seriously wounded when the B.E.2 crashed into German trenches. The opposite was true. Se...
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Going over tactics
February 13, 1917
"The army might be on the defensive, and the Air Service, too, but not Richthofen. He spent the first two weeks of February going over tactics with his squadron and meeti...
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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...
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Bölcke's analysis of MvR's first victory
September 18, 1916
"Bölcke was not only the commander of Jasta 2, but also its mentor, so the battle was analyzed the next day, when the weather was too bad for patrols. He had stayed above...
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Bölcke asks MvR to join Jasta 2 - Burrows' version
September 1, 1916
"One afternoon, Oswald Bölcke appeared. He was on his way back to Germany from a tour of air groups in Turkey. The trip had been arranged by the high command with the dou...
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Mail Pigeon Detachment
August 21, 1915
"He was to report to an airdrome at Ghistelles, a village near Ostend, Belgium, on August 21, for duty with the Mail Pigeon Detachment."
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Advanced Training
June 10, 1915
"Richthofen worked hard at Cologne and was the first of the thirty to finish. Several did not qualify. On June 10, he was sent to the No. 6 Air Replacement Section at Gro...
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Victory 11 - Burrows' version
November 23, 1916
"The pilot of the bullet-nosed Albatros that now followed Hawker around a tight circle at 3,000 feet near Bapaume, two miles inside German lines, did not know who his opp...
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MvR shot down
March 6, 1917
"While Manfred von Richthofen achieved his 24th victory on the afternoon of 6 March, her very nearly did not survive the morning. As he recorded in both his book and in a...
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MvR receives Turkish Crescent
November 4, 1917
"Officers from Switzerland and the Ottoman Empire visit Jagdgeschwader 1 in Markebeke"
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MvR receives Fürstliche Lippische Kriegsehrenkreuz für Heldenmütigkeit.
October 13, 1917
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MvR receives Treue Dienst-Kreuz von Schaumburg-Lippe
October 10, 1917
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Funeral Leutnant Wilhelm Gürke of Jasta 5
March 11, 1918
Funeral Leutnant Wilhelm Gürke of jasta 5
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MvR visits Jasta 5 in Boistrancourt
March 17, 1918
MvR visits Jasta 5 in Boistrancourt
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MvR visits Jasta 12 in Epinoy
March 23, 1917
Jasta 11 and Jasta 12 joint mission