Bombs Away

The Red Baron is a great movie for anyone interested in history and in one-hundred-year-old flying machines. It's about the life of the famous German fighter ace from World War One. My father, who fought with the Canadian army in World War Two, said that if I ever joined the armed forces, I should join the Air Force. He said he and his army comrades would be trudging through the muck and decomposing bodies while the planes flew indomitably over them. (I added the word 'indomitably.') Pilots, who tend to be the most intelligent of soldiers, had a kind of gentleman's code between them. They wanted to shoot down each other's planes, but avoided killing each other or punishing each other too severely on the ground. This code was still in effect in World War Two under Goering's command of the Luftwaffe. (Goering had been a World War One ace.) Indeed, the softer treatment of allied airmen was blamed for the Great Escape from a Luftwaffe POW camp made famous by the 1960's film. Captain Roy Brown, the Red Baron's Canadian challenger, makes several appearances in the story in his Sopwith Camel, but Snoopy, in his flying doghouse, is nowhere to be seen. I thought it was a well done film, but the German accents of all the actors were unconvincing.
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