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 this day in 1916, Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, the legendary `Red Baron' of World War 1, shot down his first allied aircraft over France.

Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen was born in 1892 and brought up by his aristocratic Prussian family in Breslau, then part of eastern Germany, now the western Polish city of Wroclaw.

He was the German WW1 ace, Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, Since his death there have been books, songs, plays and movies made about him, or based on his life and wartime experience.

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte ...

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), was a fighter pilot with the German Air Force during WWI and was credited with 80 air combat victories. ...

The Richthofen Castle, built by the uncle of fighter pilot Baron Manfred von Richthofen, or the 'Red Baron', bottom left, is selling for $3.75million.

Von Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen. (Berlin: Oppenheim, 1886.) IT is now thirteen years since Dr. Neumayer issued his “Anleitung zu wissenschaftlichen Beobachtungen auf Reisen,” a joint ...

This GTI is known throughout the community as Richthofen or the Red Baron. The nickname comes from Germany's ace fighter pilot during World War I - Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen. With ...

Instead, 98 years after the original Red Baron, Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, was famously shot down during World War I, I was squeezing into a tiny open cockpit space in his namesake ...