: He was not just a pilot but a master strategist who prioritized high-altitude positioning and diving on his prey, a tactic taught by his mentor, Oswald Boelcke.
On , at age 25, the Red Baron’s luck ran out. While pursuing a novice Canadian pilot, Wilfred May, at a low altitude over the Somme River, he was struck by a single bullet. The Red Baron
Born into the aristocracy, Richthofen originally joined a cavalry regiment before seeking a transfer to the Imperial Air Service in 1915 after finding trench warfare "boring". He initially served as an observer before training as a pilot, eventually becoming the leader of Jagdgeschwader 1 —a mobile unit dubbed the by the Allies due to its brightly colored planes and nomadic lifestyle. : He was not just a pilot but
