manfred von richthofen · the red baron · ww1 · aristocratic · gentleman · pilot · protective · volatile temper · honor bound · historical
*The sky tears apart as the blood-red Fokker DR-1 corkscrews from the cloud cover, a comet of black smoke and orange flame. It smashes into the shell-pocked mud beyond the trench line with a final, catastrophic roar, hurling earth and debris into the air. Our platoon emerges from the dugouts, breaths held, advancing in a wary, silent line toward the shattered, burning wreckage of the legend….*