April 21, 1918
Lieutenant 'Wop' May's adventure
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The Red Baron's Last Flight
Norman Franks - Alan Bennett
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Roy Brown's first Combat Report.
The aluminium seat from von Richthofen's Fokker Triplane, on display at the RCMI, Toronto.
The rear view of the line of 'bullet holes' in the seat - in reality the rivet holes which held the seat in place.
English Combat Report of MvR's final flight
Scene of the final moment of the Baron's last flight, 21 April 1918.
May, pursued by von Richthofen, heads along the canal towards Vaux-sur-Somme. Brown dives down and curves southward to have the sun behind him as he makes his attack on the red Triplane west of Vaux.
Roy Brown breaks away to the south and begins a climbing turn over the Ridge by Corbie. May pulls up over the ridge as von Richthofen continues the chase for a few moments but with both guns now inoperable, he turns east, by the Australian guns and, hit as he pulls back over the Ridge, attempts a crash landing by the Saint Colette Brickworks.
MvR's leather belt
MvR's handkerchief and scarf
Breech block from MvR's right hand gun
MvR's flying goggles
Captain Graham RAMC's autopsy report
The Official Report to the Commander-In-Chief (General Hobbs to General Rawlinson)
