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Sunday 21st of April 1918
108 years, 8 months and 20 days ago




Fighter pilot and flying ace Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen aka The Red Baron is fatally shot in his Fokker Dr.I 425/17 by Canadian Captain Arthur 'Roy' Brown at the age of 26 in Route de Bray, Vaux-sur-Somme, Hauts de France, France.


von Richthofen died from an extremely serious and inevitably fatal chest wound from a single .303 bullet penetrating from the right armpit and resurfacing next to the left nipple. von Richthofen's last word was "kaputt".