Deucey  | 17 Sep 2015 11:04 a.m. PST |
A) Roy Brown
B) Ground Troops
C) The Baron's failure to follow Boelke's Dicta!
D) A & C
E) B & C
F) Something Else |
| wrgmr1 | 17 Sep 2015 11:08 a.m. PST |
What I have read is that the bullet that incapacitated him was fired from the ground, an Australian MG team. However he was trying to escape Roy Brown's attack which had shot up his Tripe, thus the reason he was flying low enough to take ground fire.
Thus:
B and A. |
 Mister Tibbles | 17 Sep 2015 11:08 a.m. PST |
Well, I know it wasn't Snoopy because the Red Baron always shoots him down!
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| Wackmole9 | 17 Sep 2015 11:15 a.m. PST |
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| pvernon | 17 Sep 2015 11:19 a.m. PST |
I would argue that it was the 2 seat gunner that wounded him (2 months before?). Any modern flight surgeon would have had him grounded. Other than that the guy who puts the bullet in the target gets the kill, Aussie ground gunner. |
| Deucey | 17 Sep 2015 11:31 a.m. PST |
I obviously missed a lot of choices in this poll. Good points! |
| bc1745 | 17 Sep 2015 11:35 a.m. PST |
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| Gunfreak | 17 Sep 2015 11:41 a.m. PST |
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| David Manley | 17 Sep 2015 11:42 a.m. PST |
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| bc1745 | 17 Sep 2015 11:47 a.m. PST |
Didn't think gravity killed……just the impact with the ground? |
| Winston Smith | 17 Sep 2015 12:05 p.m. PST |
Bruno Stachel and Herman Goering. They were jealous. |
| Frederick | 17 Sep 2015 12:16 p.m. PST |
Roy Brown put him there and the Aussies finished him off – like wrgmr1 said Plus, of course, there was poor old "Wop" May who the Red Baron was chasing when Roy Brown got on his tail |
| wrgmr1 | 17 Sep 2015 12:17 p.m. PST |
I forgot to mention that the Baron was chasing another Camel that was diving away which also brought all of them to ground fire range. Roy Brown was trying to save one of his pilots, a lieutenant, can't remember his name. Both Camel pilots were Canadian, from my rather ancient memory? |
| Eclectic Wave | 17 Sep 2015 12:19 p.m. PST |
I saw a documentary that the Baron had received a severe head injury the day before, had certainly sustained a concussion, by the descriptions of his behavior that day and the day he got shot down. He went up anyway, and that the concussion lead him to getting in the situation he got into when he was shot down. So one could say, it was the head injury that lead to his death. |
| Old Contemptibles | 17 Sep 2015 12:40 p.m. PST |
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| B6GOBOS | 17 Sep 2015 1:55 p.m. PST |
The Red Baron's Last Flight: A Mystery Investigated Hardcover – August, 2002
by Norman Franks (Author), Alan Bennett Excellent read and (for me at least) answers the question. |
| John Armatys | 17 Sep 2015 2:39 p.m. PST |
B (rather a good documentary on UK TV keeps being repeated). |
 miniMo | 17 Sep 2015 3:01 p.m. PST |
Ground Troops. Even the Official History of the Canadian Army in the Great War gives the Australians the credit. Without so much saying so, Roy Brown got wartime credit for propaganda purposes. |
| Sundance | 17 Sep 2015 5:02 p.m. PST |
Yes, unquestionably a Digger got him. When analyzing the fight everyone but Franks/Bennet forgot to take geography into account. The Aussie (forget his name now) was actually firing down on the Baron, who was flying in the river valley. |
| 21eRegt | 17 Sep 2015 5:12 p.m. PST |
'Twas beauty killed the beast. |
| jgibbons | 17 Sep 2015 5:55 p.m. PST |
I think the names of the diggers in question may have been Buie and Popkin… I have a couple of books on the topic somewhere about… |
| Some Chicken | 18 Sep 2015 3:33 a.m. PST |
F, but I don't like to boast. |
| Old Wolfman | 18 Sep 2015 7:15 a.m. PST |
A combined air and ground crossfire,whether they realized it or not;in short,teamwork. |
| Winston Smith | 21 Sep 2015 8:30 p.m. PST |
The nice thing about a TMP poll is that it will settle this controversy once and for all. |
's first experience with 1:4800 scale naval models.
