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From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot - The World War I History, Memories, and Photographs of Leonhard Rempe, 19141921 (Hardcover)
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From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot - The World War I History, Memories, and Photographs of Leonhard Rempe, 19141921 (Hardcover)
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Twentyoneyearold Leonhard Rempe volunteered to serve Germany in
1914. By the time World War One ended, he had seen action on both
major fronts, witnessed the war from the back of a horse and the
cockpit of plane, and amassed one of the more unique records of
anyone in the Kaiser's army. From German Cavalry Officer to
Reconnaissance Pilot is his remarkable story. Rempe initially
served as a cavalryman in the 35th (1st West Prussian) Field
Artillery of the XX ArmeeKorps, fighting in several bloody and
significant battles against the Russians on the Eastern Front. In
1916, he exchanged his spurs for the cockpit and transferred to the
Western front. Flying specially built planes for reconnaissance
work was dangerous duty, but Rempe relished his time in the open
cockpits, flying at altitudes high and low to provide detailed
intelligence information for the German army. He met and knew many
of the pilots who flew in both fighter and reconnaissance planes,
including Manfred von Richthoven-the Red Baron. Unlike so many of
his fellow pilots, Rempe survived several crashes, and was shot
down over Reims, France, in March of 1918. At war's end, Rempe
returned to a defeated Germany in the midst of turmoil and
revolution and served briefly in a Freikorps (Free Corps) regiment
dedicated to preserving the new government in Weimar against German
Communists. Seeking a new beginning, he arrived at Ellis Island in
the spring of 1923 to start his life as an American. He brought
with him flight reports, other miscellaneous documents, and scores
of remarkable photographs documenting his wartime service, most of
which are published here for the first time. During 1956, the last
year of his life, Rempe penned a brief memoir of his World War One
service which, together with the photographic record, forms the
basis of From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot. Using
primary and secondary sources Dr. Paul Rempe provides insight into
the grim realities of Leonhard's war while his father's own memoir
recalls his special comradeship with his fellow soldiers and
airmen. From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot adds
substantially to the growing literature of the First World War, and
paints a unique and compelling portrait of a young German caught up
in the deadly jaws of mass industrialized war.
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