Links
The Red Baron www.briggsenterprises.com/bluemax/ View a time line of the Red Baron's aviation exploits during
World War I and see a month-by-month graph detailing the Baron's
air victories at this Richthofen enthusiast's Web site.
Who Killed the Red Baron? www.anzacs.net/who-killed-the-Red-Baron.htm This extensive Web site is devoted to reconsidering how the Red
Baron died. You'll find summaries of many of the possible theories
as well as illustrations and diagrams that help support the
various accounts.
The Red Fighter Pilot www.richthofen.com Read an online version of Richthofen's autobiography,
Der Rote Kampfflieger (The Red Fighter Pilot), which was
first published in 1917, the year before the Baron died in battle.
The version here is based on a translation by J. Ellis Barker
published in 1918.
Military Airplanes of World War I www.aviation-central.com/1914-1918/ac000.htm Familiarize yourself with some of the legendary aircraft of World
War I and see colorful illustrations of the planes in
flight.
Books
The Red Baron's Last Flight: A Mystery Investigated
by Norman Franks & Alan Bennett. London: Grub Street, 1997
The Many Deaths of the Red Baron: The Richthofen Controversy
1918-2000
by Frank McGuire. Calgary, Alberta: Bunker to Bunker Publishing,
2001
The Illustrated Red Baron: The Life and Times of Manfred von
Richthofen
by Peter Kilduff. London: Arms and Armour, 1999
Richthofen: A True History of the Red Baron
by William E. Burrows. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969
The Lafayette Flying Corps: The American Volunteers in the French
Air Service in World War One
by Dennis Gordon. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2000
The Lafayette Flying Corps
edited by James Norman Hall & Charles Bernard Nordhoff. New
York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920
Letters Home From the Lafayette Flying Corps
edited by Nancy Nichols. San Francisco: J.D. Huff & Co., 1993
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