Summary
The 25-year-old pilot's remarkable record of gallantry led even [ROY BROWN] to remark of von Richthofen's death: "If he had been my dearest friend, I could not have felt greater sorrow."
Brown's claims to have felled the Red Baron went largely unchallenged before his own death in 1944. But in recent years, historians, television documentary makers and even forensic scientists have re-examined and reconstructed the fateful engagement near the French village of Vaux-sur-Somme, raising questions about whether the Canadian pilot, an Australian gunner on the ground or other Allied servicemen deserve the glory for taking out the dreaded baron.See the full content of this document
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Who Shot Down Red Baron?
New film says Canadian did
By Randy BoswellROY BROWN, the Canadian fighter pilot at the centre of a long-running historical mystery ove...See the full content of this document
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