The red baron: a national hero at last

[MedTechStudent]

Not relevant to the thread!   

We all know the holocaust was terrible, most of us know why and how hitler did it.  Not just the Jews but to people of color, and the disabled.  Not really the right thread to be stating our universal, obvious distain for it.  So lets steer this thread back on track.   ;D

Although the RAF credited pilot Auther Brown with the killing of the Red Baron, forensics determine that the bullet that killed him came from an upward angle.  His plane crash landed and his body was discovered by Australian Imperial forces.  Later it would also be believed that an Australian AA gunner actually fired the bullet that killed Manfred von Richthofen.  Cool little mystery they've got on their hands eh?   

There ya go Wes, the Aussies shot down one of Germany's greatest war heros, good on ya! 

 

[lone bugler]

I don't see anything wrong with this... I mean the red baron wasn't a Nazi, not only that he should be remembered as a hero and for his skills in the air. Infact WWI was strictly a victor's justice. Even in WWII the U.S. government covered up the twisted Japanese human experiments in manchiria so they can get the results. If you win a war you can pretty much do whatever you want. because the Germans lost WWI ofcourse their gonna be labeled as bad guys and not heros, terrible thing really cause no one can deny the red baron did served his country honorably. sure he shot down some Canadian pilots and British pilots but thats like saying Billy Bishop shouldn't be a hero cause he shot down Germans.

 

[my72jeep]

On the topic of the Red Boron, Some 20 years ago on November 11 I was watching the wreath laying in Bracebridge Ont. when an older Man asked me what rank I was. I told him I was a lieutenant. He then told me he was a Capt. in the German Air Force, so at that I saluted him. With that he started to tell me about being shot down over the Russian Front and his escape. then about when Billy Bishop shot him down, his time in a POW camp in muskoka then he showed me some photo's in his wallet one of Herman giving him his second or third iron cross a photo of the Hindenburg ,one of him with Billy Bishop then I saw a pic that made me look twice it was a pic with a tri plane in the back ground and two German pilots in front one was the man I was talking to, the other was a very Prussian looking man that I have seen in many books. I asked is that who I think it is Von Richtoffin, and his answer was " Oh yes that's Manny he taught me how to fly" Now I was hooked.This guy was part of the flying circus. we talked for the rest of the Ceremony then went back to the Legion for a drink. Now her is where the story gets weird. This WW1 WW2 Vet was refused service at the legion on Nov 11 because he was on the wrong side during those two wars. Here we have a 90 year old German  WW1 vet and our legion was being pissy over who's side he was on. now you say the Germans have issues.

 

[JBG]

Although the RAF credited pilot Auther Brown with the killing of the Red Baron, forensics determine that the bullet that killed him came from an upward angle.  His plane crash landed and his body was discovered by Australian Imperial forces.  Later it would also be believed that an Australian AA gunner actually fired the bullet that killed Manfred von Richthofen.  Cool little mystery they've got on their hands eh?   

There ya go Wes, the Aussies shot down one of Germany's greatest war heros, good on ya! 

From the song that was popular back in the 1960's by the Royal Guardsmen, I thought Snoopy did it.