Who killed Baron Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron)? Forensic evidence and recently discovered papers hold clues about why the celebrated WWI German air ace met his fate on April 21, 1918.
In the midst of World War I's aerial combat arms race emerges Germany's ace of aces, Manfred von Richthofen. The factors that made him devastatingly effective, and kept him alive when all around him were falling from the skies are described culminating in the best guesses of experts on what caused his death.—David Foss