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The First World War saw many innovations in warfare. Probably the most significant was the introduction of aircraft. 

The first military pilots didn’t really know what they were doing. There was no rulebook about how to fight with other aircraft.

However, one pilot mastered the art of aerial warfare and terrorized the allies over skies on the western front. 

Learn more about Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Barron, the greatest ace of World War I.

The First World War saw many innovations in warfare. Probably the most significant was the introduction of aircraft. The first military pilots didn’t really know what they were doing. There was no rulebook about how to fight with other aircraft. However, one pilot mastered the art of aerial warfare and terrorized the allies over skies on the western front. Learn more about Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Barron, the greatest ace of World War I.

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The photographs of Manfred von Richthofen flying his triplane in Germany almost 100 years ago were discovered completely by accident by a keen eyed photographer who stumbled across them while looking to buy garden tools.

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a man in an aviator's outfit pointing at something

"I should have known you by your tactics. Out of the sun, swift and sudden from behind." ―Harold Green[src] Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot and member of a family of Rittmeisters. By 1917, Manfred von Richthofen was a famed German World War I flying ace and a recipient of the Pour le Mérite medal.[1] One day, von Rickthofen shot down Harold Green's Sopwith two-seater on which Indiana Jones acted as a photographer. The two landed awkwardly…

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an image of a man in the air with airplanes

This is a replica of the Red Baron's Fokker Dr.I Triplane, or Dreidecker, made famous during World War I. Thanks to Eric Van Gilder @ Van Gilder Aviation Photography. www.vg-photo.com Codi von Richthofen, The Red Baron Gallery ©

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