Polish town seeks visitors with memorial to best-known son, legendary German WWI ace Red Baron (San Diego Union-Tribune)

SWIDNICA, Poland, 12:07 p.m. Dec. 2 (AP): Baron Manfred von Richthofen buzzed above the muddy World War I battlefields in his red Fokker tri-plane, downing a record 80 Allied aircraft on his way to becoming the war’s top fighter ace and earning the famed “Red Baron” nom de guerre.