Lother Von Richtofen

Did Lother survive because of his wound,or did he fly again after it.Who nobbled him in the first place.

[Ron_F]

Hi,
He was probably shot down by Capt Field E. Kindley of the 148th Aero Squadron, pilots 4th victory. He was forced to retire at 40 victories.

vbr
Ron

Lothar did fly for a living after the war, and he was killed when he crashed an airliner in 1922.

Yes, i was flying the airliner, and i suddenly became involved in a gruesome dogfight, which ended up in my crash. Boy do i feel stupid!

[Ginger.]

Did Billy Bishop put in a claim?

[Graeme]

Missy

I suppose you could say that LvR survived the war because he was wounded (for the third time - 13 May 1917, 13 March 1918 and 13 August 1918); from the time he joined Jasta 11 in March 1917 to the time he received his third wound in August 1918, he spent only 77 days at the front.

According to some notes I've found (typewritten, so they must be nearly 20 years old) LvR and his wife had a son named Wolff but the marriage went onto the rocks and they separated. He took a job as an airline pilot and was killed on Tuesday, 4 July 1922 when his aeroplane suffered engine failure on its approach to Fuhlsbuttel airport, near Hamburg. He survived the crash but died in the ambulance transporting him to hospital.

And no, Bishop didn't make a claim on that date.

VBR Graeme

I remember once reading that Lothar was a particularly good pilot because if you look at the number of days that he flew, and wasn't recovering from wounds, his kill ratio is pretty amazing. His brother was only wounded once.

Actually his brother was injured twice. In 1915 near Ostend as a fee-gunner his finger was injured by the propeller. Right?