• MvR visits Naval Units of the 4th Army in his new role as commander of JG1. (picture source: Inside the victories of Manfred von richthofen – Volume 1, James F. Miller, Aeronaut Books, 2016)
  • MvR visiting II Marine Flieger Abteilung in his Albatros D.III. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war’s greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021)
  • A formally dressed MvR with his brother LvR to his right with unknown senior officers. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war’s greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021)

Appointed commander of Jagdgeschwader I

Event ID: 1

Categories: 

Appointment & medals
Deutsch
Jagd in Flanderns Himmel, Karl Bodenschatz, Verlag Knorr & Hirth München, 1935

25 June 1917

50.816141687498735, 3.2403333562695864
Markebeke
Marke

Source ID: 58

Jagd in Flanderns Himmel, Karl Bodenschatz, Verlag Knorr & Hirth München, 1935 p.  147 

‘Rittmeister Frhr. v. Richthofen is appointed commander of Jagdgeschwader I (It. Kogenluft 62880 Fl. II)’

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