who killed the red baron? a.k.a. Manfred Von Richthofen?

Question

ppl dont give me stupid answers plez help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think it was snowy evans or however u write it!

n who the **** is snoopy?

Answer 1

Official credit went to Canadian pilot Captain A Roy Brown. But it's possible that he was actually killed by ground fire.

Answer 2

It is now considered all but certain by historians, doctors, and ballistics experts that Richthofen was killed by an anti-aircraft (AA) machine gunner, as the wound through his body indicated that it had been caused by a bullet moving in an upward motion.

Most experts believe that the shot probably came from Sergeant Cedric Popkin of the Australian 24th Machine Gun Company, using a Vickers machine gun.[9] Popkin fired at Richthofen's plane on at least two separate occasions: once as the baron was heading straight at his position and again as Richthofen passed on his right, about 600 yards away. Popkin later stated — in a letter (which included a sketch map) to the Australian official war historian in 1935 — that he believed he had fired the fatal shot as the plane passed over his position the first time. He saw it jerk and believed that was when he hit the pilot. Such a shot would have been from directly in front of the plane and could not have resulted in Richthofen's death.[10] However, Popkin was in the best position to fire the fatal shot when Richthofen passed him the second time. It has been calculated that Richthofen lived for less than a minute after he was hit and Popkin is the only ground-based machine gunner known to have fired at Richthofen from the right, within that time frame.

Answer 3

I heard that the Austrailian (under British command I think) troops on the ground were the ones who actually shot him down. This flies in the face of the romanticized vision of dueling knights of the air, popularized by the media at the time. This may have led to the claim that a British pilot, whose name escapes me at the moment, shot down the Baron. If anything, being killed by anti-aircraft fire is too simple a way for the great red baron to have died, so this idea was ignored for many years.

Answer 4

I was going to say Snoopy, too. But I see this is a serious question.
No one really knows who killed him.
"The death of Manfred von Richthofen is clouded by dozens of often conflicting eyewitness accounts and has inspired a mountain of speculative theories." Some of those theories are here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/redbaron/theories.html

Answer 5

Snoopy

Answer 6

Snoopy

Answer 7

The Red Baron is dead?! Dear me.....

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen

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Forget your dog.
Its old school.