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MvR writes his mother

Event ID: 327

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Die Erinnerungen der Mutter des roten Kampffliegers Kunigunde Freifrau von Richthofen. Im Verlag Ullstein - Berlin, 1937.

05 October 1916

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Lagnicourt

Source ID: 10

Die Erinnerungen der Mutter des roten Kampffliegers Kunigunde Freifrau von Richthofen. Im Verlag Ullstein - Berlin, 1937. p.  85 

“I’m sitting in the large garden room, organising the letters Manfred wrote. So much has happened in these weeks. Manfred shot his second Englishman on 23 September and the third on 30 September. His letter, dated 5 October, makes the following omission: ‘Your heart beats a little faster when the enemy, whose face you have just seen, plummets burning from 4000 metres into the depths.’”

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