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[Mitchell Holman[_4_]]

[Neil Hoskins]

Not one that I know. The Red Baron was actually shot down by an Aussie
machine gunner on the ground. I suppose everybody already knew that.

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[arjay]

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> Not one that I know. The Red Baron was actually shot down by an Aussie
> machine gunner on the ground. I suppose everybody already knew that.

Not when the flick was made, they didn't.
The film dates 1971, well before the trajectories of the Aussie AA gunners
were calculated.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Richthofen_and_Brown for other errors
in the film.

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[Mitchell Holman[_4_]]

"Neil Hoskins" > wrote in
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> Not one that I know. The Red Baron was actually shot down by an Aussie
> machine gunner on the ground. I suppose everybody already knew that.
>


Only in hindsight.

It is one of the better WWI flying movies, IMHO.