Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen. (Red Baron) May 2, 1892- April 21, 1918 (aged 25)He was the most successful flying ace of World War I, and was credited with 80 confirmed air combat victories. While flying over Morlancourt Ridge, near the Somme River. In the last seconds of his life, he managed to make a hasty but controlled landing in a field on a hill near the Bray-Corbie road, just north of the village of Vaux-sur-Somme, in a sector controlled by the Australian imperial Force (AIF).