Red Baron shot down today..

[bcp]

...in 1918.

German flying ace, “Red Baron,” killed in action | April 21, 1918 | HISTORY

In the well-trafficked skies above the Somme River in France, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German flyi...

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[VinnieBoomBah]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E

 

[Hop Sing]

Thanks! I have seen a documentary that pretty much proved he was killed by ground fire due to the angle of bullet path in his torso.

And now I have an ear worm from that song - I must have listened to it hundreds of times when I was young.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

Thanks! I have seen a documentary that pretty much proved he was killed by ground fire due to the angle of bullet path in his torso.

And now I have an ear worm from that song - I must have listened to it hundreds of times when I was young.

I bet you know what happened to the gator when they touched the powder off

 

[bcp]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTTDHHkQSFY


Bruce

 

[thorborg]

RIP; Red Fokker DR1 triplane.

 

[Bacchus]

Not a great pizza, but it was okay.

 

[ARFrog]

I bet you know what happened to the gator when they touched the powder off

 

[Catbox]

The Red Baron reminds me that I am related to one of these guys through my wife.
Her Nana was German and was with a man named Alfred Druschel a WW2 pilot.
He was apparently a fancy pants pilot with 7 air victories with over 800 missions.
Old boy has a Wiki page and everything.
Alfred-o was missing in action after picking on the Americans....

Nana had some good stories from her younger days in Germany during the war.
She had to carry papers with her and was stopped frequently.
One time she was helping some people out of a damaged building when a potato masher came in through the window.
She quickly snapped it up and sent it back out the window...

My dad would crank the 8 track up with this stuff in the car and sing right along to it.
I found and bought the CD for my older brother as a gag.
Turns out we both listened to the stupid thing too....

 

[WillametteWill]

I clicked the video and my wife began singing along. Brilliant.