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...call my great countryman, the ace of all aces, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, a "sportsman"? [Nov. 30 issue P. 14.] That English term of praise befits him ill. He was a true German. In his person he epitomized unflinching might. He was no weak "sportsman. You English and American only call him one in order that as the "nations of sportsmen" you may seem to imply that he was one of you and share his glory...
...during the War. Captain Thomas J. C. Martyn, British ace, shrewd observer of men and events, former squadron commander at Isle-les-Hameau, and onetime Foreign Editor of TIME, the weekly newsmagazine, was asked to give his opinion on recent despatches from Berlin which stated that Count Manfred von Richthofen, celebrated German flyer, was not shot in the air but killed by caitiff riflemen after he had made a safe landing behind the British lines...
...crash myself but several of the pilots of No. 18 Squadron, on the same aerodrome, saw Richthofen come down and the report was that a Lieutenant Brown had brought him down, though at the same time machine gunners on the ground claimed that they had put his machine out of action. . . . "One thing is certain; his machine crashed with considerable violence on the ground, and it is sure that von Richthofen was dead before he crashed...
...Richthofen was very well thought of by the British aviators as a clean fighter and a man who did not know what fear...
Amid so much pomp it was recalled that Baron von Richthofen had ever been a scorner of the conventional mediocrities of mankind. When he was shot down at last, he was found wearing a flaming suit of silk pajamas under his aviator's uniform. Said mourners: "His pajamas and his famous blood-red battle plane were typical of the man-a flaunting, brave, exuberant war eagle. His like has not often been seen...