Dawn Patrol

Somewhere over the Western desert, Lothar-Siegfried Freiherr von Richthofen, brother of the famous ‘Red Baron' Manfred von Richthofen, is on dawn patrol in his Fokker DR.1.

Outwith my imagination such an event could never have taken place since Lothar spent his entire war in Europe, on the Western Front. Having trained initially as a German cavalry officer, he transferred to the Luftstreitkrafte in 1915 and obtained his pilot's licence a year later. His first combat success was in March 1917 and by the end of April the same year, he had scored 16 victories against the Royal Flying Corps pilots. Lothar went on to score over 40 aerial victories against the Allies, making him one of the most successful fighter pilots of WWI.