The December 8th Chicago Tribune had a brief blurb on a Polish historian finding the death certificate of Manfred von Richthofen, the famous World War II German pilot known as the Red Baron from the color of the Fokker triplane he flew while raking up 80 Allied planes shot down.
Maciej Kowalczyk reported that he had found it last month while going through old World War archives in the western Polish city of Ostrow Wielkopolski, formerly a part of Germany. Baron von Richthofen was stationed there.
The one page entry is hand-written, surprising that it was so short considering Richthofen's celebrity.
Curse You Bloody Red Baron, Snoopy's Nemesis. --Cooter
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