• Manfred and Lothar in full flight gear, standing next to a Fokker Dr.I. v(picture source: Inside the victories of Manfred von Richthofen – Volume 2, James F. Miller, Aeronaut Books, 2016)
  • MvR & LvR. (picture source: Manfred von Richthofen, The man and the aircraft he flew, David Baker, 1990, Outline Press )
  • a man in a fur coat standing next to a woman in a fur coat
    Manfred and Lothar in front of a Fokker Dr. I. (picture source: Käte Oltersdorf and Manfred von Richthofen – Her ‘restless’ patient. – Lance Bronnenkant and Reinhard Schröder – 2025 Aeronaut Books)
  • MvR in front of a Fokker Dr I. (picture source: Manfred von Richthofen, The man and the aircraft he flew, David Baker, 1990, Outline Press)
  • a man in a fur coat sitting next to a dog
    Richthofen sits on a Fokker Triplane wheel for an informal pose with his dog Moritz. The airplane appears to be inside a tent hangar and either is extraordinaryly clean or Richthofen had a cavalier regard toward oil stains on his fur coat. (picture source: Inside the victories of Manfred von richthofen – Volume 2, James F. Miller, Aeronaut Books, 2016)
  • a woman in a fur coat sitting next to a dog
    MvR and Moritz. (picture source: Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 71 ‘Richthofen’)

The red machines of the ‘Baron’ have arrived

Event ID: 675

Categories: 

Relocation & trips
Deutsch
Jagd in Flanderns Himmel, Karl Bodenschatz, Verlag Knorr & Hirth München, 1935

24 November 1917

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Avesnes-le-Sec, Cambrai
Avesnes-le-Sec

Source ID: 58

Jagd in Flanderns Himmel, Karl Bodenschatz, Verlag Knorr & Hirth München, 1935 p.  57 

“On 24 November, word seems to have spread that the “Baron’s” red planes have arrived.

There is no other explanation for the fact that remarkably few aircraft were visible on that day. Only a few English planes were observed far behind their own lines. This gave the squadrons of the wing sufficient time to set up at the new airfields in the Avesnes le Sec area.”

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