Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.

Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!

Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

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

I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near.