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Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL2tDM928eU
Von Richthofen and Brown, also known as The Red Baron, is a 1971 war film directed by Roger Corman, and starring John Phillip Law and Don Stroud as the title characters. Although names of real people are used, the story by Joyce Hooper Corrington and John William Corrington is largely fictional.
runtime 1:31:36
Reused the vintage airplanes from The Blue Max (1966).
The Guns firing Control on the Fokker triplane is not realistic
as they wanted to show when the pilot fires the guns.
Planes of the period typically uses a bicycle brake handle
fitted to the Control stick with a cable to the guns trigger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Richthofen_and_Brown
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067658/
Von Richthofen and Brown (Trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIErNPETMGM
runtime 3:13
Ending- "Von Richthofen & Brown"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxWHdFAW2jI
runtime 9:31
A beautiful-looking film with good flying and nice airplanes but not historically accurate.
Notes on errors in this clip:
Brown's squadron was flying Sopwith Camels not the S.E.5a's seen in the film. Richthofen and Brown never engaged in a "dogfight". Richthofen had begun a chase after novice Canadian pilot Wilfrid May, who had earlier fired at and missed Richthofen's cousin Wolfram (another novice) in the air on this day. Seeing May in trouble, Brown dove after Richthofen, but he was still some distance back when he had the chance to open fire at Richthofen as the three planes headed towards the British lines at low altitude.
Latest research appears to point to an Australian machine-gunner Snowy Evans -several hundred yards away and to the side of Richthofen's path of flight- as being the one who fired the fatal shot.
Richthofen and Brown: Movie critique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MESxB90hltM
This is a critique showing some of the good and bad points of the the 1971 Roger Corman film "Richthofen and Brown" (also known as the Red Baron). Although it uses real people and events it is a highly fictionalized account.
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Who Killed the Red Baron?
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4532
A look at which of the six competing claims for who killed the Red Baron was probably true.
by Brian Dunning
Skeptoid Podcast #532
August 16, 2016
On April 21, 1918, the most famous fighter pilot in the history of aerial warfare was killed in a French field. Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron", was shot down while flying his famous all-red Fokker triplane, but nobody knows from where the fatal bullet came. Of all the claimants, none makes a very convincing argument; so we're going to use the powers of deductive reasoning and documentary research to see whether any one claim is best supported. Today we're going to see if we can learn who killed the Red Baron.
By this time in his career, he'd risen to command of JG 1, a unit of four elite squadrons. They were called the Flying Circus, in part because they moved their operations from place to place by train, and in part because many of its pilots had a habit of painting their aircraft in flamboyant personal color schemes. On this day, the Flying Circus was on patrol in France and attacked a pair of British R.E.8 reconnaissance planes escorted by a group of Sopwith Camel fighters. A novice Canadian pilot, Lt. Wilfred May, tried to escape as he was told. He flew low, following the line of the Somme River. One triplane, painted solid red, dropped in behind May and got right on his tail. As the triplane pursued him, following the bends of the river, they dropped lower and lower to treetop height.
What happened next took only about one minute. Seeing the triplane chasing the new guy, a senior Camel pilot, Captain Roy Brown, dived down to help, approaching them from their right. He crossed laterally, fired a burst at the triplane, then pulled up and followed the pair, above and to the left of them. As the river bent away to the left, May pulled up a bit to ascend a shallow hill, hugging the ground contours. The triplane followed, firing at May, right into the midst of Australian anti-aircraft gunners and infantry on the hill. The triplane passed nearly over the head of Sgt. Cedric Popkin of the 24th Australian Machine Gun Company, who fired at it as it approached. The planes followed the slope of the hill upwards, and one kilometer after Popkin, they reached Robert Buie and Willy "Snowy" Evans of the 14th Field Artillery Battery, about 30 meters apart from each other, who drew beads and fired at the oncoming triplane whenever it was clear of May's Camel. Both probably did some damage. Then, perhaps seeing the danger he was in, the triplane let May go and pulled sharply upwards and began a 180° turn to the right to get out of there, but he didn't get very far. Popkin and numerous riflemen on the ground sprayed everything they had at him; as one gunner later said, "A rain of death bespattered him." The triplane quickly descended and made an abrupt landing near the top of the hill. The episode was ended, and as we now know, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron", was dead.
Many written accounts survive of this little skirmish; since Richthofen was so famous, just about everyone there wrote some letter describing what took place. And unfortunately, the claims for who fired the fatal bullet are all over the map. Every time a new letter surfaces, newspapers (even today) report that the mystery has finally been solved — as famously happened in 2015 when one such letter went up for auction, written by Brigade Intelligence Officer Donald Fraser of the 11th Australian Infantry Brigade, who credited Popkin. But be assured that many of these accounts contradict one another, and none can be considered definitive.
If that's not enough, television documentaries have served only to deepen the confusion. BBC Four and the PBS series NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/red-baron-theories.html
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have both aired programs giving fair overviews of the candidates and concluding that Popkin has the best claim, which is the prevailing view among most historians; yet the Australian news program 60 Minutes
http://www.9jumpin.com.au/show/60minutes/stories/2015/march/red-baron/
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presented both Popkin and Buie as equally likely to have done the deed. And in 2002, the Discovery Channel — known for favoring discredited or fringe theories over well-evidenced ones — aired Unsolved History: Death of the Red Baron which credited Evans with the final shot, a view shared by approximately zero historians.
There are a few fringe theories, but basically six decent ones worthy of consideration. How we go about evaluating them comes down to time and position. This fight took place over a wide area, and we know who was where. One important detail is the severity of Richthofen's injury. Must he have died immediately, or could he have still flown and fought for some time after being hit?
He was shot only once. The fatal bullet was recovered from Richthofen's clothing. It showed no deformation, indicating that it had struck him directly and hadn't ricocheted off his plane's structure. It entered his right side and exited his left chest, traveling upward at about a 25° angle. It was fired from the right side, only slightly behind his 3-o'clock position. Doctors didn't do an autopsy but they probed the bullet holes and determined that it injured the heart. Their published findings have led modern doctors to conclude that the wound was definitely fatal, but that Richthofen probably could have continued flying for perhaps a few minutes. That leaves us a pretty broad area of battlefield.
Since the bullet was recovered, it might seem there would be an opportunity to match it to the type of gun that fired it. Unfortunately this is not the case, as every single Allied weapon there that day used the same standard bullet, a 7.7mm round called the .303 British. The Vickers machine guns on the Sopwith Camels, and that used by Popkin, fired .303s; the Lee-Enfield rifles used by the infantry fired .303s; the Lewis guns fired by Buie and Evans on the ground, and by the R.E.8 observers, fired .303s.
The first theory is Captain Brown in the Sopwith Camel. This remains the official claim made by the Royal Air Force. Brown did approach and fire a burst from Richthofen's right, and it is certainly possible that at some moment he was at the right angle. The biggest problem with this theory is that this was early in Richthofen's flight up the hill chasing May. Medically possible, as it may have taken Richthofen a minute or two to realize the severity of his injury; but seemingly improbable.
The second, third, and fourth theories are the three machine gunners. Most historians agree Popkin has the best claim. When Richthofen pulled up after letting May go and circled back to the right, Popkin is known to have fired a second burst of about 200 rounds from the correct angle. This works if we assume Richthofen gave up and pulled out of the fight while still uninjured. The biggest problem is the distance. When Popkin fired this burst, he was fully 1.25 kilometers away (3/4 mile). The gun could theoretically reach that far, but it would have had to have been the luckiest shot in history.
Buie and Evans were much closer, right up where Richthofen pulled up and began his turn, but by their own descriptions, they only fired at him from the front while he was coming up the hill toward them. At whatever moment the triplane had turned and had its right side facing them, Richthofen was already making his emergency landing, meaning he'd already been shot, and neither Buie nor Evans said they fired at that time. They thought they got him from the front when he was coming up the hill, which the bullet wound disproves.
The fifth theory doesn't specify a triggerman; instead, it lays the blame on Richthofen himself. Richthofen came from a school of flyers who practiced extreme conservatism. His mentor was the great ace Oswald Boelcke, considered the father of German fighter tactics. Richthofen learned never to attack unless he had the advantage, to never get in over his head, and to do all he could to live to fight another day. He never engaged in fancy aerobatics or showmanship. His flying skills were not outstanding, and he always considered himself a relatively poor marksman. He was the best simply because he was careful.
Thus, it seems out of character for Richthofen to have found himself in this situation, fighting against multiple enemy aircraft, across enemy lines, at a low altitude among anti-aircraft batteries. Typically, you'd never see Richthofen near a situation like that, and it's caused a number of historians to raise an eyebrow; it's even prompted suggestions that he was suffering from some sort of aberrant mental state, perhaps from a head injury suffered while flying the year before, in July of 1917, when a bullet grazed the top of his skull.
In 2004 by a pair of researchers at the University of Missouri argued in the journal Human Factors and Aerospace Safety that Richthofen had suffered a traumatic brain injury and become moody and disinhibited as a result. They proposed that such effects may have impaired his judgement, and this hypothesis is now pretty widely repeated. But their paper was directly refuted by an Air Force intelligence officer, Jonathan Young, in 2006, who noted in Air Power History that much of Richthofen's greatest successes, including nearly a third of his aerial victories and his most successful month ever, came after the injury. Richthofen also successfully commanded his squadron during that same period, and played a leading role in the development of the Fokker D.VII biplane, considered the best fighter plane of the war. Young believed that many of the conclusions made by the University of Missouri team were based on insufficient data, such as reports from doctors who never thoroughly described the injury. However, Young also spoke of Richthofen with undue romanticism, describing a character who spent his whole life acting the quirky and impassioned hunter, thus he had basically always been like the uninhibited rogue said to have been created by the head wound.
Moreover, this particular fight was not especially risky or unusual for Richthofen to have engaged in, and does not require him to have been oddly uninhibited. The Germans had superior numbers — fifteen to twenty airplanes including Richthofen, against only ten Allied planes (two R.E.8 scouts escorted by eight Sopwith Camels). In addition, the entire engagement happened only just barely outside the German lines.
Although neither case was presented entirely convincingly, it does seem clear that there's insufficient reason to pin Richthofen's death on behavioral changes from the old head wound. Increased "moodiness" could also be explained by years of warfare and death, and reduced inhibitions in combat could also simply come from longer experience and improved skill.
This leaves theory number six. There were a lot of anonymous infantryman all over the hillside firing their rifles at the red triplane, from all angles. It's not necessarily improbable to hit a slow moving triplane at low altitude with a very accurate Lee-Enfield .303 rifle. We have no evidence of any specific infantryman doing this, only plenty of reports that a lot them were scattered around trying. It's a possibility that we'll never be able to quantify.
When the first few men reached the red triplane, its fuselage rested upright on the ground, its wheels having broken off in the barely-controlled landing. Richthofen rolled his head to look at the men, and though he'd broken his jaw against his guns when he hit the ground and was sputtering blood from a penetrated lung, he managed to wryly say something they took for "Alles kaput," or "everything broken." He released one final breath, and the Red Baron was no more. They undid the safety harness and pulled the limp body out of the cockpit, and laid it down beside the iconic red plane.
After a German-speaking corporal examined the pilot's papers, the identification of "Baron von Richthofen" — a name known to all — spread quickly through the brigades. Soldiers mobbed the wreck, and by nightfall there was virtually nothing left; the red-doped fabric, the hardware, and Spandau guns (one still jammed from its final fight) all torn away as souvenirs. The 9-cylinder rotary engine and the seat were carted off through official channels. They scrabbled over the Baron's remains as they did his aircraft; with no less than five historic grave sites and monuments — almost as many as there are claimants to his killing. With so much about the man snatched away by those eager to be associated with his death, it's no wonder that we haven't enough left to know for certain from where the final bullet was flung.
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How Did the Red Baron Die?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/red-baron-theories/
Like the Kennedy assassination, the death of Manfred von Richthofen is clouded by dozens of often conflicting eyewitness accounts and has inspired a mountain of speculative theories. NOVA's documentary "Who Killed the Red Baron?" is based partly on a notable recent investigation of those theories, The Red Baron's Last Flight, by Norman Franks and Alan Bennett. Another important recent book, The Many Deaths of the Red Baron, by Frank McGuire, surveys the literature supporting the competing claims. Below is a brief sampler of the many versions of the events of April 21, 1918, discussed in detail by these two sources.
ByEvan Hadingham
October 7, 2003
Who put the fatal bullet into the Red Baron as he closed in on Canadian Wilfrid May along the Somme River on April 21, 1918? Theories abound.
Mortally Wounded in Air Combat?
The Royal Air Force (RAF) gave official credit for the Baron's death to No. 209 Squadron's Captain Roy Brown, whose combat report gives only the barest outline of the action: "Went back again and dived on pure red triplane which was firing on Lieut. May. I got a long burst into him and he went down vertical and was observed to crash by Lieut. Mellersh and Lieut. May."
In 1927, after gaining access to British Air Ministry files, Floyd Gibbons published a vivid account of Brown's victory in his best-selling popular book, The Red Knight of Germany. That same year, a first-person narrative of the action, "My Fight With Richthofen," was published in Liberty magazine. Although supposedly in Brown's own words, the article was clearly influenced by Gibbons and embroidered by Liberty's copywriters.
While these popular accounts of Brown's attack are of doubtful value, his claim is supported by testimony from another 209 Squadron Captain, O. C. LeBoutillier, and from a few key eyewitnesses on the ground. However, most recent analysts conclude that the attack came at least a minute before the Baron's final crash, probably too early to have inflicted the fatal wound.
Murdered On the Ground?
In 1925, a New York-based magazine called The Progressive published an article titled "Richthofen Was Murdered." The article reported rumors circulating in Germany that Richthofen had landed unscathed and that Canadian soldiers had jumped from their trenches and killed the Baron before he could climb out of his triplane. The rumors may have begun when German pilots from the Baron's "circus" reported witnessing the triplane's relatively smooth crash landing; at first, this fueled hopes that the Baron had been captured alive, and later, the speculation that he had been murdered. However, eyewitness accounts by the first ground troops to reach the crash site make this highly implausible.
Chasing Two Sopwith Camels?
In accounts collected in the 1930s, at least three eyewitnesses claimed that the Baron was pursuing two Sopwith Camels at the time he was brought down by ground fire. One of the most detailed of these claims was by Sergeant A. G. Franklyn, who was in charge of an Australian antiaircraft battery and claims to have shot down the Baron with his Lewis gun. 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 location.
Shot Down by a Two-Seater?
On the morning of April 21, 1918, the crew of two RE8 observation planes of the Australian Flying Corps' No. 3 Squadron reported a skirmish with two red-nosed Fokker triplanes. The squadron's commanding officer, Major D. V. J. Blake, submitted his squadron's report with other details implying that one of the attackers was Richthofen and that fire by an RE8 observer had brought the Baron down. However, the attack was at too high an altitude and too early to have been connected with the Baron's death. One explanation is that a pair of triplanes from the Baron's "circus," perhaps including the Baron himself, briefly dived on the two RE8s prior to encountering the Sopwith Camels of RAF No. 209 Squadron.
An Unknown Rifleman on the Ground?
P. J. Carisella and James W. Ryan's popular book Who Killed the Red Baron?, published in 1969, includes an account by Lieut. R. A. Wood of the 51st Battalion asserting that an unknown gunner from his unit brought down the Baron. "As soon as the planes had passed overhead my platoon opened up with rifle fire, and two sets of [Vickers] machine or Lewis guns on my left opened fire. Richthofen was seen to crash soon after one of these bursts." Another eyewitness interviewed in detail in 1975, Private V. J. Emery of 40th Battalion, supported Wood's claim. Emery believed that an unknown rifleman from Wood's platoon was in a better position to have fired the fatal shot than any of the other gunners in the area.
Shot Down by a Machine Gunner on the Ground?
NOVA's program focuses on the two best-known claims attributing Richthofen's death to machine gun fire from the ground. These were made by two different Australian antiaircraft crews who were stationed on the Morlancourt Ridge. In 1956, Gunner R. Buie, a Lewis gunner of the 53rd Battery, wrote to Australian newspapers about how he and Gunner W. J. Evans had opened fire on a German plane chasing a British one toward their position. "I started firing at the body of the German pilot directly through my peep sight," Buie wrote. "Fragments flew from the plane and it lessened speed. It came down a few hundred yards away." Most researchers reconstruct Buie and Evans' firing position as facing the oncoming triplane, making it unlikely that either could have fired the side-on shot that killed the Baron.
Sergeant C. B. Popkin, a Vickers gunner with the 24th Machine Gun Company, was in a more plausible position had he fired, as he claimed, when the Baron gave up chasing May and turned back toward the German lines. According to Popkin's statement recorded soon after the event: "As it came towards me, I opened fire a second time and observed at once that my fire took effect. The machine swerved, attempted to bank and make for the ground, and immediately crashed. The distance from the spot where the plane crashed and my gun was about 600 yards."
While Popkin's position seems the best match for the evidence of the Baron's wound, the long range and wide deflection angle required has led some to doubt the plausibility of his claim. Even Popkin himself had doubts; he told the Brisbane Courier in 1964 that "I am fairly certain it was my fire which caused the Baron to crash but it would be impossible to say definitely that I was responsible...As to pinpointing without doubt the man who fired the fatal shot the controversy will never actually be resolved." |
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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL...The Red Baron - Buried Four Times!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icnG7ozhTLU
Mark Felton Productions
Oct 30, 2020
runtime 14:26
In this special Halloween edition discover the macabre story of the four burials of the Red Baron, WW1s greatest air ace, whose body became a kind of trophy to be moved around Europe and used for political reasons until finally finding peace.
Jagdgeschwader 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdgeschwader_2
Jagdgeschwader 2 (JG 2) "Richthofen" was a German fighter wing during World War II. JG 2 operated the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Focke-Wulf Fw 190 single-seat, single-engine Interceptor aircraft.
Named after the famed World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen.
Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 71 "Richthofen"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taktisches_Luftwaffengeschwader_71_%22Richthofen%22
Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 71 "Richthofen", formerly known as Jagdgeschwader 71 (JG 71) Richthofen is a Fighter wing of the German Air Force.
JG 71 was West Germany's first operational jet fighter unit. On 29 June 2013 the last F-4F Phantom fighter flew for the last time, before the type was taken out of service. The wing is now equipped with the Eurofighter Typhoon. |
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DOGFIGHTS: The Red Baron | Rise Of Flight Short Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO43Eve2r2Q
Ace Rawlings
Jan 21, 2021
runtime 25:20
Inspired by the History Channel Dogfights Shows
Due to the limitations of Rise Of Flight, not all aspects are 100% accurate.
Inaccuracies in the film-
1.The two-seater brought down by Manfred was a French Farman.
2. Manfred did not fly the DFW.
3. Manfred's Albatros DV.a was a mix of red and brown when he was shot down.
4. He flew the Fokker F.1 before acquiring his Dr. 1
5. Not all paint skins are accurate to the time and squadron.
Ace Rawlings: Aviation Gaming
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmYtuACkAZvmEnKXVIM_WtQ
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Music videos
Sabaton - The Red Baron (Subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io14H6fqnv4
Film - The Red Baron (2008)
[1 Hour] Sabaton - Red Baron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMORGNfRU3o
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Manfred von Richthofen-The Red Baron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKmu0rG-l40
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Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 -- 21 April 1918), also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I. He is considered the top ace of that war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories, more than any other pilot.
Originally a cavalryman, Richthofen transferred to the Air Service in 1915, becoming one of the first members of Jasta 2 in 1916. He quickly distinguished himself as a fighter pilot, and during 1917 became leader of Jasta 11 and then the larger unit Jagdgeschwader 1 (better known as the "Flying Circus"). By 1918, he was regarded as a national hero in Germany, and was very well known by the other side.
Richthofen was shot down and killed near Amiens on 21 April 1918. There has been considerable discussion and debate regarding aspects of his career, especially the circumstances of his death. He remains quite possibly the most widely-known fighter pilot of all time, and has been the subject of many books and films. |
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Manfred von Richthofen (speed corrected)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WENuH7DWXPE
Johan R. Ryheul
12 Dec 2018
Scenes at Markebeke, with Wolf, Göring, Loerzer, his father, but also Antony Fokker, emperer (kaiser) Wilhelm II
I did adapt scenes, speed and brightness in this film
For educational purposes only
Fokker Dr1 - Manfred Von Richthofen (Red Baron - 1917)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju01G-1sWNQ
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31 Oct 2020
Fokker Dr1 - Manfred Von Richthofen (Red Baron - 1917)(4k). This footage of Manfred von Richthofen and his Fokker Dr1 was taken in September 1917 and footage was reproduced in 1934 for educational purposes. the original footage resolution is 480x360 at 10 fps and upscaled to 4K 60fps with color, but it seems to upscale it 6 times didn't give the result I was hoping for. |
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Wargamer Scenario Depot: Red Baron II/3D
https://archive.org/details/wargamer-depot_redbaron3d
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Death of the Red Baron - Highest scoring ace of WWI | 80 victories, 21st April 1918
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYeo0NucVr0
runtime 11:53
April 27, 2024
Soto Cinematics
On the morning of 21st April 1918, Rittmeister Manfred Von Richthofen of Jagdgeschwader (Jasta) 11, the famous Red Baron, was shot down after flying low over the Somme.
Initially taking off with 8 other Fokker Dr.Is on a routine interception sortie against two Australian RE8s, Richthofen later became engaged in a dogfight against 209 Squadron RAF over Sailly-le-sec.
During the dogfight, Captain Roy Brown who was leading 209 SQN saw friend and novice pilot Lieutenant Wilfred May being followed to ground level by Richthofen’s red triplane.
As Brown dove to intervene, Richthofen received significant ground fire from Australian positions as he followed May past Vaux-sur-Somme. A single bullet almost certainly fired by Sergeant Cedric Popkin (24th Machine Gun Company, 11th Brigade, 4th Australian Division) fatally wounded Richthofen who soon crashed in a field near the Sainte Colette brickworks.
Visuals: IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles
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The Red Baron: The Life & Death Of WW1's Legendary Fighter Ace | Baron Von Richthofen | Timeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9AZk-4n7Ns
Aug 24, 2023
runtime 52:56
Timeline - World History Documentaries
Manfred Von Richthofen, the Red Baron, was the greatest fighter ace of World War One and perhaps the most famous fighter pilot of all time. Credited with 80 air combat victories, more than any other WWI pilot, he was a brilliant tactician and led his "Flying Circus" to unparalleled success before being shot down and killed in April 1918 at the age of just 25. |
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