Who killed the Red Baron : address to Melbourne Legacy [manuscript]. 1976 Aug. 24.

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Who killed the Red Baron : address to Melbourne Legacy [manuscript]. 1976 Aug. 24.

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The address presents evidence to support the claim that it was Australian forces on the ground who shot down von Richtohofen's plan not, as the official version had it, a Royal Air Force pilot. Von Richthofen was killed on 21 April 1918 near the River Somme, France.

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Richthofen, Manfred, Freiherr von, 1892-1918

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Germany's top aviator in WWI, know as the Red Baron or the Red Knight because of the colour of his plane. He became a hero to the German public shooting down 80 enemy aircraft before he was killed in action. From the description of OM79-17/44 Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen Fuselage Fragment, ca. 1918. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 755746807 ...

Harding, Eric, 1893-

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Eric Harding belonged to an artillery unit of the A.I.F. Several of his unit members witnessed the shooting down of von Richthofen. Harding was not himself an eyewitness. From the description of Who killed the Red Baron : address to Melbourne Legacy [manuscript]. 1976 Aug. 24. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223016921 ...

Harding, Eric, b. 1893.

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Melbourne Legacy

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Australia. Australian Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)

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