Sunday, April 22, 2018

April 22, 1918 - The Red Baron

Today's headline in the Evening Public Ledger:
 
Mannfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (the Red Baron) was born in Prussia in 1892 and died April 21, 1918 from a ground-fired bullet wound sustained while flying for the "The Flying Circus" German fighter wing unit near Vaux-sur-Somme in northern France.

Another front page article from the same issue of the Evening Public Ledger documents German war losses to date:

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