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THE RED BARON is still regarded as "the ace of aces."
He was born in 1892 and died on April 21, 1918, when he was shot from the air above
the Somme River.
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen is recognized as the most successful
fighter pilot of World War I. He is credited with 80 confirmed
kills.
He was downed by a single shot from a .303 rifle or machine gun. Wikipedia, the free
Internet-based encylopedia, has an informative entry on The Red Baron
and his demise.
You can go directly there by clicking,
WIKIPEDIA
OJOA members were fascinated to discover that the seat from Richthofen's feared
Fokker triplane, a wing section and fuselage fabric was at RCMI, where
we enjoyed our Christmas dinner.
The photographs below are high-resolution images, meaning they are LARGE files. This
way you can download them to your own desktop and see them in larger
detail.
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These Richthofen artifacts are priceless and are in excellent care within
RCMI. Several generations have already viewed and studied these
artifacts and countless generations will, undoubtedly, continue to
study them.
The Royal Canadian Military Institute, click: 
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