Site of Red Baron's first mission located

A Polish historian says he has located the village where Manfred von Richthofen, the German fighter ace known as the “Red Baron,” took on his first mission of the First World War.

Site of Red Baron's first mission located

A Polish historian says he has located the village where Manfred von Richthofen, the German fighter ace known as the “Red Baron,” took on his first mission of the First World War.

Maciej Kowalczyk said today that from Richthofen’s writings he has determined that the misspelled “Kielcze” he mentions is almost certainly the village of Chelmce.

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