Combats

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 pursuing an English plane was being attacke...

Combat Report: 1840 hrs, south-west of Bois de Hamel. Sopwith Camel, burned; Englishman. With six planes of Jasta 11, I attacked large enemy squadron. During the fight I observed that a Triplane was attacked and shot at...

Combat Report: 1843 hrs, north-east of Villers-Bretonneux. Sopwith Camel, burned; Englishman. Three minutes after I had brought down the first machine, I attacked a second Camel of the same enemy squadron. The adversary...

‘The phone went. The ever so friendly, obliging editors of the ‘Rundschau’ announced that Manfred had defeated his seventy-ninth and eightieth opponent. A great and joyful excitement seized me; I stepped through the door...

"Second Lieutenant Wilfrid R May ('Wop'), a Canadian pilot flying with the newly formed No.209 Squadron (1 April 1918), was on his first combat mission over the area of the river Somme when his squadron of fifteen Sopwit...

1: The Approach. A section of von Richthofen’s flight, approaching from the east along the Somme River, leads an attack on a pair of British reconnaissance planes northeast of Le Hamel. The Germans are fired on by Austra...

Australian machine gun crew that brought down MvR. Sergeant Cedric B. Popkin is at the trigger handles of the Vickers machine gun. To his left is Harry Heywood, and to his right might be Ruper F. Weston. The fourth perso...

Below are excerpts of Norman Franks' and Alan Bennett's book 'The Red Baron's last flight'. It contains much more detail than below, and is the ultimate reference on the subject. “…The two aeroplanes had approached the F...

Below are excerpts of Norman Franks' and Alan Bennett's book 'The Red Baron's last flight'. It contains much more detail than below, and is the ultimate reference on the subject. "...As the weather improved and the sky b...

Below are excerpts of Norman Franks' and Alan Bennett's book 'The Red Baron's last flight'. It contains much more detail than below, and is the ultimate reference on the subject. "…Here fate took a hand and the path of C...

Below are excerpts of Norman Franks' and Alan Bennett's book 'The Red Baron's last flight'. It contains much more detail than below, and is the ultimate reference on the subject. “The ground action against Manfred von Ri...

Below are excerpts of Norman Franks' and Alan Bennett's book 'The Red Baron's last flight'. It contains much more detail than below, and is the ultimate reference on the subject. "Sergeant Cedric Basset Popkin, Machine G...

Manfred lebend in englischer Gefangenschaft

‘A. Roy Brown, the Canadian captain whose bullet killed Manfred von Richthofen, said the following about the dogfight he had with Manfred von Richthofen and in which the German was killed: ’I had a school friend who was...