![]() ![]() There were no pilot’s notes or approved tactics memoranda to study. There can be little doubt that von Richthofen was one of the best fighter pilots the Germans had in World War One, not just because he was credited with the most aerial victories of any of the warring nations but because he was the master of his trade – a trade that he, and all other air fighters of that war, had had to learn for themselves. ![]() Since then much has been written about the famed Red Baron, and of his Flying Circus, Jagdgeschwader Nr. IT HAS been over 70 years since Manfred von Richthofen’s original The Red Air Fighter (Der Rote Kampfflieger) was published in Germany in 1917, the year before he was killed in action over the Somme battlefields in France.Īlthough the war was still being fought in France, such was the interest in von Richthofen that the book was immediately translated into English and in 1918 published in both England and the United States of America. ![]()
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