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an earlier thread asked "what three pilots would you save". someone then suggested that an explantion be given as to why. i voted for brown and the reason i did so comes from a book titled 'the red knight of germany', written in 1928 by floyd gibbons. on page 204 it says, 'as the australian machine gunners claimed at the time that the red plane had been brought down by fire from the ground, a post-mortem examination was held by army and air medical officers, who agreed that richthofen died from a single bullet wound which had traversed his breast from the right to the left side. the air medicos probed the wound and stated that the "situation of the entrance and exit wounds are such that they could not have been caused by fire from the ground."
this is not to try and change the opinion of visitors to this site, but is the basis of my opinion.
a safe and merry christmas to all,
leon
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