Manfred von Richthofen, aka the "Red Baron," was the highest-scoring fighter pilot of World War I. In 20 months of combat, he officially shot down 80 enemy aircraft, including 21 planes in the ...

By war's end, more than 250 American pilots had served in the LFC, and 63 had died either in combat, from wounds sustained in combat, or in airplane ... France by the Red Baron in 1918.