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THE END OF THE RED BARON

... THE END OF THE RED BARON Cavalry Captain Baron von Richthofen was shot down in aerial combat on the day when the German papers announced his 79th and 80th victories. Boyd Cable writes: The Red Baron, with his famous 'circus,' discovered two of our artillery ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1918
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 245 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE END OF THE RED BARON

... THE END OF THE RED BARON Cavalry Captain Baron von Richthofen was shot down in aerial combat on the day when the German papers announced his 79th and 80th victories. Boyd Cable writes: The Red Baron, with his famous 'circus,' discovered two of our artillery ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1918
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 245 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

Red Baron 'shot down by Aussie'

... Red Baron 'shot down by Aussie' AN Australian soldier is now believed to be the man who shot down the legendary Red Baron the most feared German aviator of the First World War. A Canadian pilot was credited with downing Baron Manfred von Richthofen in ...

Published: Monday 24 November 1997
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 79 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Red Baron Days Have Gone

... Red Baron Days Have Gone THE last war produced a crop of great air aces —Mannock, Ball, Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, Fonck—and strings of other fighters who shot down enemy machines in wholesale fashion. Maybe this war will produce a similar ...

Published: Sunday 17 September 1939
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 243 | Page: 6 | 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

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

THE GAZETTE Friday September 16 1983 Our Red Baron victim appeal was a success Ereadway beat We have succeeded in

... fourth victim of Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen the Red Baron I was only 1 1 at the time All we knew was that he was missing presumed dead This came out of the blue I must admit I had to ask a friend who the Red Baron was Mr Fenwick will be writing to ...

Published: Friday 16 September 1983
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2750 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Fatal

... eighty planes which fell to the machine guns of Richthofen, have another reason for recalling the Red Baron. Two top RAF Flyers are on loan to the Richthofen squadron directly descended from the Red Baron's famous N- Ing Circus. As part of the NATO pact ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1981
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

banned in Germany even on plastic scale models. The real plane crash-landed close to Allied trenches on the ..

... the dead Richthofen still sitting bolt upright at the controls. Kill In a macabre scramble over the body, three different Army Regiments, as well as the RAF, claimed the kill. Souvenir-hunting soldiers tore the plane to pieces. the Red Baron's few British ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1981
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

ON LOAN: Flt. Lt. Sawyer and Sqdn-Ldr. Poffington

... dive-bombing techniques with such effect that Hitler made him a field marshal. Today, members of Richthofen's squadron wear an armband which carries the Red Baron's name. But it has been redesigned so it no longer bears the eagle and Second World War swastika ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1981
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 11 | Tags: none