On April 21, 1918, the Red Baron was killed. That was the nickname of Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen of the German army. Historian John Schmidt recalls what happened. On April 21, 1918 ...

violent death? To find out, I investigated the short life of my great-uncle Stephen Tyson. As a child I remember hearing that he'd been shot down over France by the Red Baron in 1918. As I looked ...

Subsequent research has suggested that Franklyn probably confused the Red Baron's demise with his battery's downing of a German airplane the day after the Baron's death in a slightly different ...

According to Leon Bennett, whose book Three Wings for the Red Baron explores the triplane phenomenon ... After von Richthofen’s death in 1918, another fighter, now considered the best of the ...