Who shot down the notorious Red Baron?

Updated April 20 2018 - 6:07am, first published 6:01am
German flying ace the Red Baron (inside aircraft) was shot down over Australian lines in 1918.
German flying ace the Red Baron (inside aircraft) was shot down over Australian lines in 1918.

For soldiers in the muddy trenches of France and Belgium, the aviators pirouetting high above them might have seemed a race apart, heroic pioneers of a more noble form of combat.

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