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CAN you find the forenames of these 10 famous aviators? 1. ___ Von Richthofen, the Red Baron. 2. ___ Aloock,

... CAN you find the forenames of these 10 famous aviators? 1. ___ Von Richthofen, the Red Baron. 2. ___ Aloock, first trans- Atantic flight. 3. ___ Armstrong, first man on the Moon. 4. __ Wright, one of famous brothers. 5. ___Lindbergh, solo Atlantic flight ...

Published: Monday 17 January 1994
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

It happened today 1916: German World War I air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen - the Red Baron - was

... It happened today 1916: German World War I air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen - the Red Baron - was killed in the air by a single bullet. 1962: America's Bell Telephone Company introduced radio paging. 1964: BBC 2 was launched with the programme Playschool ...

Published: Friday 21 April 1995
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 70 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Red Baron’s fall from health

... Red Baron’s fall from health EEK after week the WRed Baron always gets the best of Snoopy in Charles M Schulz’s famous comic strip, but the real life exploits of Manfred von Richthofen were no laughing matter. According to a new biography the German flying ...

Published: Sunday 20 November 1994
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

191111: The infamous Red Baron was shot down and killed during the First World War. Manfred Von Richthofen had shot

... 191111: The infamous Red Baron was shot down and killed during the First World War. Manfred Von Richthofen had shot down 80 allied planes in less than two years. UM Mark Twain, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...

Published: Tuesday 20 April 1993
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 84 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

ELLIS PLAICE Red Baron's choice, a

... ELLIS PLAICE Red Baron's choice, a The PUBLISHER World War I air V.C. Air Commodore Freddie West. The Imperial War Museum has helped to re-create the Baron's final moments at the Torbay Museum with a model display. Of the eight million who fell in the ...

Published: Friday 21 April 1978
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 62 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Red Baron ‘not fit to fly after injury’

... no-one had been arrested. The legendary Red Baron was probably not fit to fly during the last months of his life, according to new research by a German doctor. Dr Hennit}g Allmers believes Manfred von Richthofen should not have returned to combat after ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1999
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 436 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

on leave. She was a German, wasn’t she? Richthofen’s sister, or something. We called him the Red Baron. The Aussies

... on leave. She was a German, wasn’t she? Richthofen’s sister, or something. We called him the Red Baron. The Aussies shot him down. D. H. Lawrence was no pacifist and, in his more sober moments, was perfectly capable of seeing the dilemma in which the ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1980
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 491 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

Red Baron’s cross goes under hammer in London

... Red Baron’s cross goes under hammer in London THE LEGEND of the “Red Baron”, the most famous fi%l:ter ace of all time, still lives g:arters of a century after his 2 Dol A Cross painted on the side of Manfred von Richthofen’s red Fokker triplane is expected ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1994
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 297 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

‘MAN ‘'WHO FOUGHT . RED ‘BARON: DIES

... ‘MAN ‘'WHO FOUGHT . RED ‘BARON: DIES Group-Captain John lfim vhom down. 21 German aircraft in 11 months in the First World War, has died at Bexhiil, Sussex. He was 82. ¥ His “score™ was one of the w‘h&t on either side and was jleved while he was a patrol ...

Published: Tuesday 31 August 1971
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Red Baron was ambushed - claim THE 80-year mystery surrounding the death of die Red Baron took a new twist

... lines to lure Baron Manfred von Richthofen into a trap. The legendary World War I pilot led his squadron, the Red Baron's Circus, in a swoop on the apparently-defcnceless plane over the Somme in April, 1918. What von Richthofen did not realise was that other ...

Published: Thursday 11 December 1997
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 220 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Search on for family of Red Baron’s 13th victim

... of 33 airmen shot down by the ‘Red Baron’, as well as the RFC pilot who is credited wit{\ ‘downing’ Baron Von Richthofen’s plane, and even several surviving airmen who escaped unhurt after a ‘dogfight’ with Von Richthofen. All have signed or inscribed ...

Published: Friday 29 November 1985
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 266 | Page: 32 | Tags: none