To: KingOfVagabonds
Richthofen followed the enemy plane to the ground, landing close to the German lines, where he discovered that both the pilot and the observer that accompanied him, Lieutenant T. Rees, were mortally wounded. According to Richthofen, "I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave." There has been an attempt in the popular media to romanticize Richthofen but the bottom line is that he got a number of his kills by intentionally trying to shoot the pilots. He was very skilled and war is war -- I am not suggesting that he should not have tried to kill his enemy -- but there was nothing romantic about what he did. He was a very efficient killer.
2 posted on
09/17/2012 6:19:10 AM PDT by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Opinionated Blowhard
8 posted on
09/17/2012 6:48:41 AM PDT by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American that a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
He was a rock star in Germany at the time. I believe he was born in Breslau which is now Wroclaw, Poland. Damn Pollock!
16 posted on
09/17/2012 7:57:47 AM PDT by
gr8eman
(Ron Swanson for President!)
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