Short Vers. | The Death of the Red Baron |

Manfred Albrecht Freyr Von Richthofen was born into an aristocratic Prussian Family in Breslau, what is now modern-day Poland in 1892. His education was in a succession of Military schools and academies. He was an excellent athlete, he was a fine horseman, and he was initially commissioned into the first regiment of the Uhlan's Kaiser Alexander The III in 1911. And after the war started in 1914 he served both in the Western and Eastern Fronts as a cavalry officer. By 1915, he was transferred to the Imperial German Air Service and there he studied Aerial Tactics under the master German strategist a man named Hauptmann Oswald Bulky, and he flew his first combat mission after less than 30 hours of flight instructions. He soon excelled in combat by following the Bulky Dicta. Which Approaching your enemy from above with the sun behind you firing only when you get to close range always keeping your eyes on the target and attack with the four to six Planes.

At the Beginning of 1917, The Red Baron as it came to know had 16 Confirmed Aerial Victories and he has been awarded Germany's Highest Military Decoration. And was a Commander of his Squadron the Jasta 11, In April 1917, Alone Bloody April. He downed 22 British Planes he began painting his Albatross Red. But it didn't take long for the whole world to know him as 'The Red Baron'. 

Manfred's First Aerial Victory was on the 17th of September 1916 near Villers Plouich. He shot down a British F.E 2b from the 11th squadron, killing Capt. Tom Rees and Lt. Lionel Morris.

In July of 1917 Richthofen Crashed in Belgium after being attacked by Capt. Donald Connell of the Royal Flying Corp suffered a Severe Head Injury. Very likely a skull fracture in that crash. Now despite Blurred consciousness and Visual Compromise, he manages to land his plane. Over the next several months he still flew occasionally and have several operations to remove his skull splinters from his head wound. He suffered from Severe Headaches. And there was a very noticeable change in his Personality which persisted at that time until his death. Against Medical Advice he returned to regular flying with his group by October of 1917, downing 18 more planes over the next six months this brought to his total of 80 Aerial Victories. He was the leading Air Ace of World War 1.

Richthofen met his end on the 21st of April 1918. Under rather unusual circumstances he was pursuing a Canadian Pilot called L. Wilford May who didn't have any combat-experienced but he was also being pursued by much more season pilot by the Name of Capt. Arthur Roy Brown. Brown dived steeply at the Baron fired at him before having to climb to avoid crashing to the ground. The Baron continued his pursuit of May but soon came under concentrated fire on the Ground by Australian Soldiers now this was something that Baron would not normally do.
He ended up landing on a muddy field near the Somme River. The Soldiers that have fired at him to the ground were the first to arrive at his red rocker triplane and they have claimed to hear him mumbling something including the word Kaput.

He was buried on April 22nd in a village near Amiens, France after a military funeral conducted by Commonwealth forces. And there is a film that exists parts of that funeral as it happens. Now Capt. Roy Brown received a bar to his distinguished flying cross. But not the Victorian Cross which has been promised by Britain. For the man who killed the Red Baron. Now despite the number of claimants, no Australian Soldier receives any sort of decoration or recognition having caused Von Richthofen's death. The most likely scenario for the Death of The Red Baron seems to be supported not only by the eyewitness testimony on the ground but also by the evidence on his body and on the plane. We should probably give credits to a man named Sargeant Cedric Popkin of the 24th Machine gun Company of the First Australian Imperial Force. He was firing his Vickers machine gun at the red rocker dr-1 triplane as it banked and fled to avoid the fire to Louis machine guns that by the man named Robert Buie and Snowy Evans. But there isn't any confirmed information who killed the Red Baron

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