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19418: The Red Baron — Manfred von Richthofen — was shot and killed during the First World War. He had

... 19418: The Red Baron — Manfred von Richthofen — was shot and killed during the First World War. He had shot down 80 allied planes in two years. His nickname came from his red Fokker triplane:_ 1926: Queen Elizabeth II was born in London. 1972: Astronauts ...

Published: Thursday 21 April 1994
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Loghook sale

... Loghook sale A logbook recording the shooting down of “‘Red Baron'’ von Richthofen by an RFC pilot in 1918 is expected to fetch up to £1,200 at Christie’s on 4 October. ...

Published: Tuesday 25 September 1990
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 31 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PALACE

... THE LEGEND OF FRENCHIE KING A Certificate Programme. One Evening Performance at 6:40 (Feature, 8.23). S- Also—THE RED BARON Von Richthofen) One Evening Performance at 6.35 (Feature 8.19) lUNDAY, St P'FEMBER 8111—FOR FOUR DIA He has 100 ways to kill— and ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1974
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 84 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

QUIZWORD ACROSS

... river (5). 10. Actress Diana Fluck 25. Schoolday contemporaries, as in a TV programme (10). DOWN 1. Forename of the Red Baron (Richthofen) (7). 2. Civil wrong for which an action for damages may be brought (4). 3. Longest river in South Africa (6). 4. ...

Published: Friday 22 December 1989
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 353 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Saab’s aviation link

... aviation link the Bavarian compan{s aircraft origins. It was building aeroplane engines to the satisfaction of the Red Baron (von Richthofen) and powerh;g successive tions of Fokker planes filore high?erformance .cars became its main preoccupation. German ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1985
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Canadians are our

... Canadians suffered very heavy casualties but it is not widely realised that it was a Canadian airman who shot down the Red Baron von Richthofen and that roughly half of Monty's army group in Europe consisted of the Ist Canadian Army. Spain has no record of ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1995
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 189 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

THE DROPOUTS tories of men nd machines

... Divine of Japan would blow with the smash of a suicide plane. Tmthmfloflwmmflu.nklm and heroes like Albert Ball, the Red Baron von Richthofen, Douglas Bader, Guy Gibson. and the host of other pilcts and aizcrew. ‘The book ends on one of the most fantastic ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1971
Newspaper: Kent Evening Post
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Fokker display

... display GERMAN ambassador Hermann von Richthofen is to visit a Somerset air museum tomorrow to see a flying display by an exact replica of the Fokker triplane flown by his famous ancestor, the Red Baron. Baron von Richthofen, his greatuncle, claimed to have ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1990
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 86 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DAVID MERCER

... catch-as-catchcan against the Hun, sometimes to the audible cheers of the troops massed below. The legendary Red Baron — Manfred von Richthofen — is seen a: a cold~blood’e:lmliull§r. devoid of imagination the possessor of a particularlv. nasty sense of ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1978
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

NUCLEAR TIME-BOMB GIRL LEMMA IS DEAD

... six months Gemma was allowed home from intensive care. Ace's high A LOGBOOK recording the 1918 shooting down of Red Baron von Richthofen by a British pilot is set to fetch £1,200 at a Christie's auction. But yesterday she was rushed back to hospital ...

Published: Monday 24 September 1990
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 246 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Old ‘Red

... ace was a German. Dubbed “The Red Baron, von Richthofen was personally credited with shooting down 80 enemy aircraft, all British except for a lone Belgian. His red Fokker monoplane led what was known as “Richthofen’s Flying Circus”, a familiar and ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1989
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

thursday

... visiting Robert Gordon's Univer Ss LONDON — State opening of Parliament. LONDON — Phillips to sell plane in which “Red Baron” von . Richthofen was shot down. State opening of LONDON — First consignment of Beaujolais Nouveau via Channel Tunnel. vision results ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1994
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 38 | Tags: none