In message , Stephen Harding
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Russell Waterson wrote:

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As a somewhat related question...

PBS recently had a Nova show on "Who Killed the Red Baron?". It mentioned
that he is generally portrayed as having been shot down by a Lt Brown of
the RCAF (RFC??), but the bullet that did him in was noted to have passed
from *below* him, and up and across (from the side) through his chest,
making it questionable that he was actually killed by Brown, in a Sopwith
Camel attacking from behind and above.

It mentioned a couple sets of ground gunners, British and Australian, who
were actively shooting at him too.

Unfortunately, I dozed off for the final 10 minutes of the show and never
heard the "new information" that has apparently been unearthed about the
shooting down of von Richthofen.

Can anyone who saw the show tell me what the final conclusions were? Does
Brown keep the credit, or is someone on the ground now considered the
destroyer of the Red Baron?

On this point I can recommend 'Who Killed The Red Baron' by Carisella &
Ryan. Pub in USA by Daedalus Pub. Co. 1969 My copy is ISBN 0 85617 306 1
pub by PBS.

A good biography and a good analysis of the final flight, with
interviews of many concerned. Photos, sketches, including that of the
trajectory of the fatal bullet.

Mike
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M.J.Powell