Talk:Manfred von Richthofen
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An event in this article is a April 21 selected anniversary (may be in HTML comment)
Portrait taken from http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/people/38931.htm
The image seems ro be copyrighted :
http://www.awm.gov.au/services/image_sales/user_photo_art.htm
- According to a discussion I once had in the Village Pump, other guys recommended me that the process of digitalizing an image does not allow it to be copyrighted - the image is old, and the person who scanned it didnt make any creative effort. Yves
'* This is controversal - was it really just the tails?
By the way, concerning the Red Baron's story, there are many divergences. Most of them related to imprecision, but at least one is controversal indeed - Who really killed the Red Baron? These issues, incluing also what some say - that he flew mostly with the Abatros planes, not Fokkers - may, and probably will, be treated in a later update.
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wrong person
Frieda von Richthofen is not Manfred von Richthofen's sister. You were refering to Else von Richthofen.
- She was his distant cousin.[1] (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/research/dhlawrence/cold_hearts.html) I made the correction in the article. Postdlf 11:53 4 Apr 2004 (EST)
Lincoln College, Oxford
According to Lincoln College, Oxford, Richthofen was a distinguished alumnus of the College. The article doesn't mention when he was at Oxford. Does anyone know? Tonusperegrinus 19:55, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Couldn't find anything about Richthofen at the Lincoln College website, or on Google (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&q=++%22oxford+university%22+OR+%22Lincoln+college%22+%22Manfred+von+Richthofen%22+-wikipedia&btnG=Search) in connection with “Lincoln College” or “Oxford University”, except Wikipedia Rip-offs and Oxford University press books about him. -- chris_73 08:31, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I couldn't find anything on this either. For one thing this implies that Richthofen spoke English. Has anyone seen any reference for that? Cjrother 03:05, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
Who Killed the Red Baron?
NOVA did a story, "Who Killed the Red Baron?" in 2003. (spoiler coming up) It gives about 40 minutes of biography and 15 minutes of forensics. They explain that the bullet had to come from a distance - about 600 yards away - for the autopsy to show the path of the bullet. Further, its trajectory from below the right armpit up, exiting below the left nipple indicates a shot from the ground, right side. Buie and Evans, "by their own testimony,... were firing face on to the triplane so they could not have hit von Richthofen on the right hand side." Based on gunner position, timing and trajectory, NOVA credited Popkin, albeit with (IMO way too much of) a nod to uncertainty. [2] (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/redbaron/) -- Ke4roh 01:33, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
Popkin is the most likely candidate by far, but there were so many Australian soldiers firing that no one can say for certain that it was him.
Also, I can't find any reference to Popkin or any other Australian being officially recogised, although the newly-formed RAF credited Brown with the kill. Grant65 (Talk) 05:46, May 23, 2004 (UTC)
The wording of the paragraph is now very confusing IMO. Was the baron turning his plane or merely turning around in his seat? Grant65 (Talk) 09:56, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
I thought the forensics on the NOVA program was pretty solid. Is there not a link or article on the PBS site about this? Wjbean 01:34, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)
current Manfred von Richthofen
There is a Manfred von Richthofen who's the president of the Deutscher Sportbund. Is he related? Maybe that's someone to put on the page under Relatives of note. Really the only thing I've found for him is: http://www.dsb.de/index.php?id=535. BigBen212 21:40, 20 May 2005 (UTC)