So how did his name end up on a pizza box in the 1970s? The Red Baron was immortalized before the war was over, but heroes fade.
On news of his death, The Times of London wrote, “all our airmen concede that Richthofen was a great pilot and a fine fighting man.” He was buried with full military honors by the same enemies who shot him down. Richthofen earned the respect of pilots on both sides of the war. Richthofen led Jagdgeschwader 1, a deadly German air squadron the Allies called “the flying circus” for its colorful planes, organized flight patterns, and for darting from battlefield to battlefield by train. That plane and its pilot inspired fear in opposing forces. He notched 80 air victories before his death on April 21, 1918, many gunned down from his iconic red triplane. The real Richthofen spent more time shooting down enemy planes than shooting pizza commercials.
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