Talk:Cedric Popkin

Cedric Popkin
With all due respect to the service of Cedirc Popkin, I have to disagree with the conclusions in this article. It is based on a single documentary made by "revisionist historians" I saw the documentary also. It is based solely on the 'trajectory' of the bullet. From the lower right back towards the front left chest. That documentary assumed the angle of impact must mean that it was fired from the ground. However, consider the situation. We are talking about a "dog-fight". The Foker Tri-plane was rolling, pitching, yawing, climbing, and diving. Imagine how much manuverability that a 3 wing airplane has!! So therefore, it is possible the pursuing plane could have fired from any angle. The fatal bullet passed clean through the Red Baron and of course could never be recovered. Therefore it is impossible to conduct ballisctics tests. While recognizing that for "propoganda reason" Capt Brown was awarded credit for the "kill", of course realistically, we could never know who fired the fatal bullet that day=claffey-27


 * Actually the "historical consensus" (many serious books, articles etc. - far from "a single documaentary") has for many years now been that the only bullet that could possibly have struck Richthofen (only one did) was NOT fired by Captain Brown, basically because he wasn't there! He had indeed fired at Richthofen, but he then had to climb steeply to avoid hitting the ground and lost contact. This was a full two minutes before the Baron died - whereas the wound was one that must have caused either instant or almost instant death. At very low altitude, the kind of flipping about described would have caused "energy loss" and a speedy crash, so the angle of the wound is less irrelevant than implied. So we DO know Richthofen was killed by groundfire. The whole quetsion is covered at the Red Baron's own article - and its talk page, of course. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 02:57, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

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