A brilliant reconstitution of the last fight of Manfred Albrecht Freiherr “The Red Baron”.
Richthofen’s last flight – Cinematic Historical documentary (In game footage from the flight sim “Rise of Flight”).
The story is as factual as I can make it. The only known historical inaccuracies are:
1. Mellersh does claim a Triplane shot down that day, but it was in fact Wolff, and he didn’t “explode”, but returned home and landed safely after spinning towards the ground under Mellersh’s fire.
2. The two seaters depicted in game are not Albatros (as they should be) But DFW’s, not represented in game (yet!) The story should really have RE8’s too…
3. A few of the Jasta colours are incorrectly shown – they are “mixed and matched” to a degree to represent the “Flying Circus”.
The rest is, as it should be, as far as possible, but comments, suggestions towards the much disputed legend of Richthofen’s death are welcome! He was reported to have been pulled alive from the aircraft saying “Kaput”.. But this seems unlikely due to the nature of his wound.
Richthofen wears the Pour le Mérite, the “Blue Max”, Prussia’s highest military order, in this official portrait, c. 1917
