The pilots lounge on the base in slacks and shirts. The SE5as are lined up and being worked on ,readied for flight
HORN (CONT’D)
Major Bishop did you read the paper yet?
BISHOP
No not yet,
why is the war over?
The pilots laugh
HORN
Not quite, but Herr Richthofen is dead
BISHOP
[Grabbing the paper]
Let me see that
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FAMED GERMAN AVIATOR KILLED
BISHOP (CONT’D)
Well I'll be damned
Shot down over the Somme by a Camel.
Flown by a Canadian... Captain
Arthur Roy Brown...never heard of him
HORN
Some Aussie machine gunners are claiming they bagged him from the ground
BISHOP
They said the same thing when
Albert Ball was killed.
The Germans claimed he was brought down by ground fire,
A load of bullshit!
HORN
The important thing is he's dead
this will be a great morale boost for our boys
BISHOP
I chased that son of a bitch for six months, twice I had him in my sights
He should have been my kill!