• Folllowing pilot training, Richthofen flew Albatros two-seaters with Kampfstaffel 8 of Kampfgeschwader 2 over the Verdun sector. He seems subdued here in conversation with Kasta's 8 commanding officer, Hauptmann Victor Carganico, a pre-war military aviator and BAO veteran. (picture source: The Illustrated Red Baron - The life and times of Manfred von Richthofen - Peter Kilduff -Cassel & Co - 2000)

MvR trains on Fokker Eindecker

Event ID: 554

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Anecdote, Testimonial
English
Richthofen, Beyond the legend of the Red Baron, Peter Kilduff, Arms and Armour, 1993

14 June 1916

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Entre Thonne-les-Près et La Chiers (Wikipedia.fr)
Thonne-les-Près

Source ID: 33

Richthofen, Beyond the legend of the Red Baron, Peter Kilduff, Arms and Armour, 1993 p.  45 

ISBN: 1854091271

“His Staffel leader, Victor Carganico, recalled: “At the time he came to my Staffel as a two-seater pilot, he was already urging that I send him for two or three days to the Heldenvater, the head of the Air Park in Montmédy, Keller, for single-seat fighter instruction. After his return, I place my own single-seater at his disposal, as, due to engine failure through no fault of his own, he had had to ‘set down’ near Verdun.””

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