Ploeckner

Character Key Number: 
1499
Display Name: 
Ploeckner
Sort Name: 
Ploeckner
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

According to what Bayard tells his family in Flags in the Dust, the German pilot who shot down Johnny Sartoris in combat was named Ploeckner; "one of the best they had," Bayard says (43), adding that he is one of the proteges of Manfred von Richthofen, the pilot known as the "Red Baron." Ploeckner in turn shot down by Bayard.

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