He retired in 2011 to focus more fully on writing biographies and books related to military, aviation and engineering matters. It is more than a hundred years since Manfred von Richthofen, the ‘Red ...

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Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried worked in the spaceflight, aviation and nuclear fields for about 25 years. He was a member of the original NASA Space Task Group for Project Mercury and was a NASA ...

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However, the choice ultimately winds up being up to you when he is faced with pitting lichdom against the fate of his skeletal assistant, Manfred.