Sunday, December 12, 2010

Under the Guns of the Red Baron, by Norman Franks, Hal Giblin and Nigel McCrery


Under the Guns of the Red Baron: The Complete Record of Von Richthofen's Victories and Victims Fully Illustrated, by Norman Franks, Hal Giblin and Nigel McCrery
Grub Street, 1995
224 pages including index anf bibliography
Library: 940.4494 FRA

Backmatter
Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen was the most feared and celebrated of all German pilots in World War I, and has become one of the iconic figures of history. This book by three respected historians, released to coincide with a major motion picture entitled The Red Baron, has researched in detail the lives of all of his 123 victims (over 100 of whom are depicted) and provides a blow-by-blow account of their encounter with the great man - a unique compilation of material.

Table of Contents
There is no TOC as such, just a list of the dates on which Richthofen shot down each plane. I will not reproduce it here, but his career of aircraft shot down began on September 17, 1916 and ended on April 20, 1918. (He himself was shot down and killed on April 21, 1918.

Photos
Lionel Bertram Frank Morris, 2nd Lt
Tom Rees, Captain
Herbert Bellerby, Sergeant
Oswald Boelcke
Ernest Conway Landsdale, Lt
Albert Clarkson, Sergeant
William Cecil Fenwick, 2nd Lt
Fritz Kosmahl
John Thompson, 2nd Lt
Cuthbert Godfrey Baldwin, Sergeant
George Andrew Bentham, 2nd lt
John/Ian Gilmour Cameron, 2nd Lt
von Richthofen, Stefan Kirmaier, Hans Imelman, Hans Wortmann
James Cunningham Lees, 2nd lt
Gilbert Sudbury Hall, 2nd lt
George Doughty, 2nd lt
Lanoe GEorge Hawker, Major
Benedict Philip Gerald Hunt, Lt
Officers of 32 Squadron, RFC all unidentified exept Hunt
Arthur GErald Knight, Captain
Lionel George D'Arcy, Lt
Reginald Cuthbert Whiteside, Sub-lt
James Thomas Byford McCudden, Sergeant
McCudden, General Joffre, four unidentified pilots
Allan Switzer Todd, Flight lt
John Hay, 2nd lt
John Eric MacLennan, Lt
Oscar Greig, Captain
Percival William Murray, Lt
Duncan John McRae, Lt
Cyril Douglas Bennett, 2nd lt
George Cyril Bailey, Captain
James Benjamin Evelyn Crosbee, Lt
John Edward Prance, Sergeant
Herbert John Green, 2nd lt
Alexander William Reid, 2n lt
Robert Gregory (shot down Richthofen the first time after his 24th victory?)
E. L. Benbow (shot down Richthofen the first time after his 24th victory?)
Eduard Lubbert
K. Schafer
Gerald Maurice Gosset-Bibbly, 2nd lt
Geoffrey Joseph Oglivie Brichta, Lt
Arthur John Pearson, Lt
Cabaret-Rouge Cemetery
James Smyth, 2nd lt
Edward Byrne, 2nd lt
Arthur Elsdale Boultbee, Lt
Frederick King, 2nd class air mechanic
George McDonald Watt, 2nd lt
Ernest Adam Howlett, Sergeant
Sidney herbert Quick, Flight Sergeant
William John Lidssey, 2nd lt
Richard Plunkett Baker, Lt
Christopher Guy Gilbert, Lt
Patrick John Gordon Powell, Lt
Percy Bonner, 1st class air mechanic
Richthofen and Ltn Hans Klein
Algernon Peter Warren, 2nd lt
Reuel Dunn, Sergeant
Donald Peter McDonald, 2nd lt
John Ingram Mullaniffe O'Beirne, 2nd lt
Arthue Norman Lechler, 2nd lt
Herbert Duncan King George, 2nd lt
George Orme Smart, 2nd lt
Leonard Heath Cantle, lt
John Seymour Heagerty, 2nd lt
Heagerty, Capt WL Robinson and 7 other unidentified members of POW cricket team
Keith Ingleby MacKenzie, 2nd lt
Guy Everingham, 2nd lt
Edward Claude England Derwin, lt
H. Pierson, gunner
James Maitland Stuart, Captain
Maurice Herbert Wood, lt
James Allen Cunniffe, Sergeant
Allan Harold Bates, 2nd lt
William Alfred Barnes, sergeant
William Oswald Russell, Lt
Alphonso Pascoe, Lt
Eric Arthur Welch, 2nd lt
Amos George Tollervey, sergeant
RW Follit with fiance Lilian T Watkins, autumn 1914
Reginald William Follit, lt
Frederick James Kirkham, 2nd lt
Richsrd Applin, lt
Richthofen and Werner Voss in flying gear
Lt. W N Hamilton next to plane
Richthofen, unidentified pilot
George Stead, sergeant
Alfred Beebe, acting corporal
David Evan Dvies, lt
George Henry Rathbone, Lt
Albert Edward Cuzner, flight sub-lt
Lt HC Barlow memorial plaque
Ralph Walter Elly Ellis, lt
Harold CArver Barlow, lt
Barlow and unidentified members of III platoon, A Company, 20th battalion, Lancashire fusiliers. Group photo.
Pilots of 32nd squadron: HR Carson, C Wilderspoon, W Amory, AA Callender, JC Russell, EC Spicer, MA Tancock, RW Farquhar and Farson
2nd lt D P Collis in POW camp with Capt GH Cock. Wearing evening dress and gown respectively, for an entertainment show.
Norman GEorge McNaughton, captain
Angus Hughes Mearns, Lt
Richthofen and his father, seated on building steps with Georg Simon, Karl Allmenroder, Kurt Wollf, Lothar von Richthofen, Wolfgang Pluschow, von Hartmann, Konstantin Krefft, Hans Hintsch
Leslie Spencer Bowman, Lt
Hubert Arthue Whatley, sergeant
Frank Guy Buckingham Pascoe, 2nd lt
Lt A E Woodbridge, who is the 2nd pilot to shoot down Richthofen
FE2 crew, unidentified
2/lt CR Richards who also claimed to have shot down Richthofen
pilot and gunner positions in a FE2
William Harold Trant Williams, 2nd lt
Four unidentified German guards and crashed plane
Coningsby Philip Williams, 2nd lt
Richthofen on a bicycle
Walter Kember, 2nd lt
Algernon Frederick Bird, lt
Richthofen and Anthony FokkerLt AF Bird and von Richthofen
Memorial of the Missing monument (Royal Flting Corps, Naval Air Service and Air Force)
James Alexander Vazeill Boddy, lt
Capt HT Fox Russell
Donald Argyle Douglas Ian MacGregor, Lt
Lothar and Manfred in front of Fokker triplane
Leonard Cyril Frederick Clutterbuck, 2nd lt
Henry James Sparks 2nd lt
Elmer Ernest Heath, lt
William George Ivamy, 2nd lt
John Percy McCone, lt
McCone, WJ Gillepsie and KP Campbell
Donald Cameron, 2nd lt
Allan McNab Denovan, 2nd lt, (and a woman, unidentified)
Matthew Leggat, 2nd lt
Thomas Sydney Sharpe, Captain
Kenneth Purnell Barford, lt
George Halliwell Harding, 2nd lt
Joseph Bertram Taylor, 2nd lt
Ernerst David Jones, Lt
Sydney Philip Smith, Captain
Ronald George Hinings Adams, Lt
Richard Raymond-Barker, Major
David Greswolde Lewis, 2nd lt
O.C. LeBoutillier
Lt. W. J. MackenzieLt. W R May
Captain A. R. Brown DSC
Four maps of "Where the victims Fell" [While most pilots and their observers/gunners, if any, died, not all did so.]

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