From flying coffins to gladiators of the sky (4 of 6)&fmt=18

In April 1917 USA enters the war. The germans dominated the air with skilled pilots and the Albatross and the Fokker Triplane DR1, but the allies should once again recapture the air superiority with a new generation of aircraft. Among these was the most succesful fighter of the war, the british Sopwith Camel with two syncronized maschine guns, with which it destroyed more than 1.200 enemy planes.
The most famous fighterpilot of the war, the great german ace Manfred von Richthofen , who was called "The Red Baron" and who had 80 air victories, now fell in the fightings and was given a funeral with full military honours by the british.

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• History
• airwar
• WW1
• Camel
• Triplane
• Red
• Baron

[rotagen5]

Wilson the British and the private "federal reserve" succeeded into getting us into WWI through the sinking of the Lusitania. This ship was loaded with munitions and armaments departing NYC for London. She also had about 190 American passengers. The German Imperial government placed ads in over 30 American newspapers that the Lusitania (British Flag Ship) was considered a war supply ship and was thus open to attack. The Wilson administration succeeded in having the ad pulled by all but one.

[Olfux]

In my opinion you aught to be glad, that US despite all losses took part in the war in Europe. Every american, who gave his life to fight the nazies, had made his contribution to the free world.

Do you really think US had stayed free, if Hitler had won? You would have been made nazies as most of the world.

Thank Churchill as we thank the british and the americans.

[rotagen5]

Tell me again how bush and the neocons are unlike the "nazis" as popularly portrayed on the idiot box (tv)? Where's that "freedom" yur talkin about? sounds cool. Oh yeah, Freedom to be robbed by the fed, lied to, and fed misinformation. How enlightening.

[Olfux]

I dislike mr. Bush just as much as you do. He must be the badest president in the history of USA, but he is no nazi, he and the ugly neocons might symphatize with some of the nazi-policy, but that don't make then nazis, nazis wore MUCH worse.

You have freedom of elections (unlike last time, but that wo'nt be repeated), and should the coming lection result in another republican president, i'm confident, that Mcain is a total different man than Bush. You have fredom of the press etc.

[Olfux]

Yes,you'r right and besides, I do'nt find the way in which von Richthoven fighted particular glorious, but this said, he was brave like all other flyers at all to fly into battle.

[ichmalealsobinich]

Hey guys! The documentary TV movie is telling about the pilots of the first world war. Hitler was still a simple stupid soldier than and no one was thinking about a nazi party in 1918. So why this boring dispute again?

[MRoesterreicher1]

it wasn't the sopwith camel that killed him. instead it was a bullet of a lewis gun on the ground.

[lostfokker]

@rotagen5 The Lusitania was sunk in 1914 ... the US did not enter until 1917 when the russians had their revolution and were out the war. the germans that were fighting the russians were moved to the western front. the US joined the war because they could not let the french and British lose, as they had loaned them so much money for the war effort. to reuse the modern term, they were too big to fail. all the money we loaned the french and british would have been lost if they lost the war.

[Quercusalba2]

Thanks to the Allies' "victory" several hundred million people had to become commies instead.

[elli782]

Latest reaserchers say that the red baron was most likely killed by a ground AAA gun man.