“In the last six weeks, we have had out of twelve pilots six dead and one wounded, while two have had a complete nervous collapse,” von Richthofen wrote home. Boelcke, honored by friend and foe alike, had been not only young Manfred’s squadron leader, but also his mentor, at a time when fledgling fighter pilots needed every edge just to survive. At the funeral young Lieutenant Manfred von Richthofen bore the hero’s decorations on a black pillow, while planes of the British Royal Flying Corps-the enemy-dropped flowers from overhead. An October 1916 midair collision with one of his own men killed Germany’s Ace of Aces, Captain Oswald Boelcke. In air combat death comes quickly, often from a direction least expected. Rittmeister Freiherr Manfred Albrecht von Richthofen.Īn informal outtake from the same setting as his more stern-looking most famous photo
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