On April 21, 1918, a Canadian wheat farmer turned pilot trained his guns on a crimson red tri-plane. Moments later, Germany’s greatest pilot was blasted from the sky. Germany’s greatest World War One pilot, the aristocratic Baron Von Richtofen, was blasted from the sky in April 1918. This date marked a turning point in the character of modern warfare – the end of the concept of glory and honour and the beginning of air war as a dirty, killing business. This is the story of that historic battler.