With 40 victories to his name at the time of his death, Hauptmann Oswald Boelcke was Germany's greatest fighter pilot and air unit commander. Boelcke was born in Giebichstein, (near Halle, Saxony) the fourth child of six in a schoolteacher's family. Ever an active youth, he excelled at gymnastics...

U.S. History period2 Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, became one of the world's most well known fighter pilots of World War I. Manfred was born in Breslau, Poland, which is now Germany. As a small child he loved to take risks. Once as a boy Richthof...

Better known as "the Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen remains one of the greatest legends of aviation. Born in a part of Germany that is now Poland, Richthofen was the son of an aristocratic Prussian family. A far bett...