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My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

~Manfred Von Richthofen

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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

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Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

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As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

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It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Aviator

Born: May 2nd, 1892

Died: April 21st, 1918

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