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history will almost certainly show that brown was the one who killed richthofen.
i personally believe he did, and he (brown) believes he did. he seemed genuine when he said "i couldn't have felt greater sorrow if he had been a friend", or something like that. i don't think he was just saying that 'for the record'. i believe he really thinks he killed him. he was, after all, in the cockpit of an aeroplane that was behind richthofen. he knows at what angles they were flying in their efforts to shoot down their perspective targets. he must have been at an angle, favorable to him, to get off 'the shot'. he would know whether or not it had been possible to have made the wounds that took richthofen's life.
leon
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I don't buy that. Would most combat pilots rather have their name go down in history as the man who beat the ace of aces, or become a footnote in history, as just another pilot who tried and failed to shoot down MvR.
I think most fighter pilots would rather be the hero, and their retelling of the tale would be skewed to reflect this.