# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manfred-von-richthofen
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:43.741Z

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description: "He painted his plane red and tallied eighty kills in the skies over France — more than any other pilot in the First World War. The color made him a target and a legend in equal measure."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Manfred von Richthofen started the war as a cavalryman, transferred to the German Air Service in 1915, and was discovered by Oswald Boelcke. He joined Jagdstaffel 2 in 1916 and climbed fast: by 1917 he led Jasta 11, then took command of Jagdgeschwader I — the "Flying Circus," named for its brightly painted aircraft and its habit of moving by rail like a touring show. A master tactician, he became a national hero in Germany and something close to a phantom for the Allied pilots hunting him. He was shot down and killed near Vaux-sur-Somme on 21 April 1918, at twenty-five. The circumstances of his death remain disputed, but the scarlet Fokker Dr.I is fixed in memory.