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When did the red baron die?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The Red Baron was a German Aviator during World War who tallied up the highest confirmed "Kill" list (80) over any other airmen, allied or axis powers. A Kill was an enemy plane shot down and it had to be confirmed by other sources other than the pilot himself.

Manfred von Richtofen was the Red Baron. He was a Baron, German arisocrat but he painted his some of his planes red partly because his old cavalry unit the Ulhans unit color was red but also as indentification in the air by his fellow airmen and the enemy. Richtofen transferred from the cavalry to the air service early in the war.

He was in pursuit of his 81st "kill" when he himself was killed by a single bullet. It is unknown who really killed the Red Baron but official credit went to a Canadian airman, Capt Roy Brown of the Royal Flying Corps on April 21, 1918 flying in a Sopwith Camel.

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