‘What General Weygand called the “Battle of France” is over. I expect that the battle of Britain is about to begin’ When Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke these words in the House of Commons on June 18, 1940, he did not know when and where Germany would first strike in its attempt to conquer the United …
The Red Baron – Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen.
The greatest fighter pilot in history, he was born on May 2, 1982 in the small Silesian town of Kleinberg near Schweidnitz. His father was a retired career military officer, and Manfred was destined to follow in his father’s footsteps – he entered the Wahlstatt Cadet Institute at the age of 11, developing a great …