[mamelukesabre]

I wonder who they credit with his kill? It seems to me they never really proved one way or another who’s bullet was responsible for killing the red barron.

[infowarrior]

I wonder who they credit with his kill? It seems to me they never really proved one way or another who’s bullet was responsible for killing the red barron.

While it is still disputed to this day, as far as I know, Roy Brown got, and still has, the credit for Von Richtofen...

the infowarrior

[Surtur]

mamelukesabre, I recently saw a show on this very subject. As infowarrior mentions in another post, pilot Roy Brown was officially awarded the kill, but the show uses modern forensic methods, and they believe that an Australian infantryman firing a machine gun from the ground was the real one who took out the Baron. More info can be found at the link below http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/redbaron/about.html

[Levante]

“I wonder who they credit with his kill?”

Ozzie ground troops or a Canadian pilot? There is evidence for both.

[Mr. Silverback]

It absolutely was one of the Aussies on the ground that killed him.