Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen (1892-1918), immortalized as "the Red Baron," was the leading ace of the war with eighty kills; shot down while piloting his Fokker Dr. I, credit at the time was assigned to Canadian ace Arthur Roy Brown (1893-1944) of the British Royal Air Force, but latter-day scholarship contends that the fatal shot came from the ground; age twenty-five, Richthofen died on 21 April 1918.
The Wayback Machine Tour of the Red Baron
№ DXV: September 1916, Richthofen scored the first of this eighty aerial victories.
№ DXLVII: April 1917, Richthofen's squadron alone accounted for one-third of Entente aerial losses.
№ DLV: June 1917, Richthofen took command of the innovative, multi-squadron "Flying Circus."
№ DLXIX: October 1917, Richthofen's Flying Circus first took delivery of the Fokker Dr.I triplane.
Lest we forget.
Commentary: The immediately previous episode of "The Explorers' Club" (№ DCV: Rouge Bouquet) was published exactly one month hence, on 22 March 2018. There has never before been so long a gap & for that I cannot sufficiently express my sorrow, regret, & deepest apologies. I hope & pray, dear readers & fellow explorers, that you will forgive me this unforgivable lapse & will stick with both The Secret Base & "The Explorers' Club" as we right the ship.
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