June 1915. Cavalry subaltern Manfred von Richthofen (the famous Red Baron) having decided that he was more likely to see some action in the Air Service than in the 1st Uhlans was posted to the Eastern Front as an air observer. He had not applied for pilot training as he believed that the war would soon be over.Whilst operating in the Gorlice-Brest Litovsk area of Poland he was on one occasion flying in an Albatros BI when it was hit by ground fire from an Infantry machine gun. Luckily, the Albatros was able to land safely, and even more luckily the place where the aircraft put down had only minutes before been captured by a German Assault, and was within yards of the enemy front line.Not so lucky for the eighty allied pilots he was to encounter during the next two years however.