The Red Knight of Germany, the story of Baron von Richthofen, Floyd Gibbons, 1927, 1959 Bantam Books
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...
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...
"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...
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...
Just to show them how it was done, he led them over the English lines for the first time on January 23d and 'knocked down' the first victim to be registered on...
"To the Commander of the Sixth Army air forces: The adversary often slips downward over one wing or lets himself fall like a dead leaf in order to shake off an...
"The English single-seater pilots always fly in squad formation when on pursuit work. Reconnoitering and artillery fire is also now carried on by squads of two-...
"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...
"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 w...
"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...
"Among the chief properties of a good pursuit plane (he wrote in a secret opinion to the technical staff) are the following: a good plane must not lose altitude...
"As a matter of fact, I had been allowed to bag only forty-one. Anyone will be able to guess why the number was fixed at forty-one. Just for that reason, I want...
The ace was needed back at the front. He received orders cancelling his extended leave, and on June 10th, he reported for duty at General Headquarters at Kreuzn...
"The man who shot Richthofen down that 6th of July morning was Flight Commander Albert Edward Woodbridge, who was a Second Lieutenant at the time and was acting...
"It is nine years since the greatest incident in my life happened. It finished my career as a flying officer but, as a Hun officer remarked, 'the war is finishe...
"Newton, the observer, was highly praised, not by name, but by reference, on the afternoon of his death, when Richthofen sat over a late lunch at the squadron's...
Slow but sure
"Its walls are covered with the linen scalps of fallen foes. They are the gaily painted red, white, and blue numbers and symbols cut from fighting planes that w...