Today is the 92nd anniversary of the death of the Red Baron.

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Top-scoring ace of the First World War Manfred von Richthofen was shot down and killed in his Fokker Triplane 92 years ago today. Who fired the fatal shot remains in dispute - unlike in AH, when you usually know who got you.

 

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he would be pretty darn  by now 

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Its also my Birthday Woo Hoo!! Single Malt here i come. Old enough to know better and young enough not to care




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If ya ever want to read a good book about him try to find Richthofen- A true History of the Red Baron by William E Burrows

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-Penguin

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Mazel Tov.

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If ya ever want to read a good book about him try to find Richthofen- A true History of the Red Baron by William E Burrows

I was lucky enough to have done an extensive bit of research on Manfred.  It was also a gift to have shared a number of phone calls with Dale Titler (author of "The Day The Red Baron Died") who's exhaustive research and cultivating personal relationships with as many surviving witnesses as possible put together one heck of a book. 

It was true Kismet when I met "Anna", the von Richthofen family gardner in Schweidnitz, on a flight from Frankfurt to Chicago (O'Hare) in April of 1979.  It was one of the most intrigueing conversation I have ever been lucky to have.

  Manfred.


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Top-scoring ace of the First World War Manfred von Richthofen was shot down and killed in his Fokker Triplane 92 years ago today. Who fired the fatal shot remains in dispute - unlike in AH, when you usually know who got you.

 

Well, it's been shown that Brown didn't score the kill on the Red Baron as he's been credited with.


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I thought it was pretty widely accepted now that he was brought down by an Australian ground gunner.

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As I've posted elsewhere, there's two film clips on which von Richthofen appears at, of all places, a Holocaust museum (due to the young Goering also being on the film).

http://resources.ushmm.org/film/search/index.php

Search on Richthofen - should be two clips, both shot by Anthony Fokker. Various other aces also appear, including Voss. Good shots of DVIIs and Dr.Is in the air, DVIII and captured Spad on the ground, as well as von R's 61st victim, Algy Bird, and the wreck of the latter's Sopwith Pup.