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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

RICHTHOFEN'S LAST FIGHT

... RICHTHOFEN'S LAST FIGHT DARE-DEVILS OF THE AIR ARON VON RICHTHOFEN was Germany's greatest air fighter in the Great War. Known as the Red Baron, he Hew an all-red machine, and was leader of a circus which was probably the best-known air fighting unit ...

Published: Sunday 12 May 1935
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1981 | Page: 21 | 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

Red Baron fantasy of a cruel deceiver

... claimed. at times that he was: - O The great-grandson .of the First World War German flying -ace’ Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. - O Disowned by his father for joinin;‘thé RAF. ‘O Discharged from the RAF after-a_flying accident which put_himi_in: ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1992
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

‘Red Baron’ pilot is killed at air display

... ‘Red Baron’ pilot is killed at air display A PILOT mimicking the First World War flying ace the Red Baron died when his plane crashed during a country fete last night. M ore than 5,000 people watched in horror as the plane crashed in fields near the annual ...

Von Richthofen rekindles memories ‘Uncle Manfred’

... Von Richthofen rekindles memories ‘Uncle Manfred’ HIS Excellency Baron Hermann von Richthofen, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany paid his first visit to Scotland and rekindled memories of a leie‘ndary figure — the Red Baron, wartime air ace ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1989
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 487 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

VON RICHTHOFEN'S DEATH: NAZI VERSION Military Alfairs

... Manfred von Richthofen, the famous air-ace, Upon an even higher pedestal than his undoubted heroism and chivalry have thus far secured for him. For in the task of making Germany air-minded, every schoolboy is taught the story of yen Richthofen and of his ...