The Red Baron's final battle came in April 1918, nine months after he was injured. Von Richthofen, 25, pursued a fleeing British plane near Vaux sur Somme, France, ...

I’m at an airfield near Albert, in northern France, to reenact the Red Baron’s last fatal flight on April 21, 1918. One disadvantage of all these wings is apparent right away. When taxiing ...

details the final battle in which the Red Baron was killed. examines ballistics, correspondence, and eyewitness accounts surrounding the shooting.

NARRATOR: April 20 th, 1918: In the skies over northern France, Allied and German fighter aircraft are locked in a ferocious dogfight. One of the contenders in this aerial battle is the legendary ...

It's been 85 years since German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen was shot from the skies above northern France in the final throes of World War I, ending his terrifying string of 80 kills ...

O n this day in aviation history, we mark the 107th anniversary of Manfred von Richthofen's final aerial victories. On April 20, 1918, the famed German ace-known around the world as the Red Baron ...

It's never been clear why the World War I German flying ace dubbed the Red Baron took the chances that got him killed one spring day in 1918. Now two retired U.S. Air Force psychologists think ...

This month marks 100 years since Bloody April, when the Red Baron ruled the skies in one of World War One's most notorious battles. Among 207 British airmen to perish was a man whose final hours ...