Richthofen

Corman’s success prompted offers from major studios, and he directed “The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” and “Von Richthofen and Brown” on normal budgets.

The war’s highest-scoring ace was a German, Baron Manfred von Richthofen.

The sequence that perhaps best encapsulates this quality though is Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace, and his battle with the Red Baron, aka, Manfred von Richthofen, a German fighter pilot and aristocrat who downed 80 Allied planes between 1916 and 1918.

Since April, the RAF's IX Squadron of Typhoon fighter jets has taken over the mission lead from Germany's historically-named Richthofen Squadron.

In Wilson’s view, the prosecution of “The Rainbow” had less to do with the book’s sexual frankness — despite the obscenity charge — than with its author’s being an antiwar activist married to a German aristocrat who, as it happened, was a cousin of Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious fighter pilot also known as the “Red Baron.”