It was a pilot that was credited with the 'kill' at the time, but the
rest of the story stands, by current analysis.
PaulH.
Gregory Kirk wrote:
>
> Yep as usual Canada gets forgotten. The Canadian Expeditionary Force
> fielded a full corps in France for most of the duration of the war, in fact
> The Canadian Corps successfully took Vimy Ridge after the French and the
> brits had their go at it, and we were active in Flanders as well. It was a
> Candian Royal Medical Corpsman Maj. MacRae who penned the most famous peice
> of poetry to come out of that War "In Flanders Fields"
>
> Also Canda's contibution in to the air war was all out of proportion to her
> population, if I recall corectly, we had 3 or four of the top 10 allied air
> aces, including Billy Bishop, and Capt. Brown who is credited with shooting
> down Manfred von Richtoffen, aka The Red Baron.(and for the Aussies, yes I
> know one of your anti-aircraft batteries claimed the kill, but according to
> the autopsy he'd have to have been flying upside down and in the other
> direction to have been shot down by your gunners <smile>)
>
> Greg Kirk
> Canadian Expatriate
>
> At 06:19 PM 12/11/97 EST, ROBERT G. HOWARD wrote:
> >Philip,
> >The US was involved in WWI, though not to the extent of the UK,
> >certainly. The involvement of two of my uncles was sufficient to get one
> >buried in France and the other gassed so that his lungs were never right
> >thereafter. I believe that the US Expeditionary forces suffered only 50M
> >casualties. Incredible, isn't it, that that number is only a small
> >fraction of the ones the Tommys suffered, not to mention the Belgians,
> >French, Alsations and all the rest who got dragged into the
> >conflagration.
> >Bob
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 11 Dec 97 21:25:22 -0000 Phil <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk> writes:
> >>On 11/12/97 8:36 pm ROBERT G. HOWARD said
> >>
> >>> No, unfortunately. Gallipoli in this reference is something far
> >>worse,
> >>>one of the incomprehensible human events that call into question the
> >>idea
> >>>that mankind is on the top of the evolutionary pyramid.
> >>> Gallipoli is a peninsula on the west side of the Dardanelles.
> >>During
> >>>WWI, it was decided by the Brits that the peninsula should be invaded
> >>>from the sea, the territory being Turkish and Turkey being an ally of
> >>>Germany. The lads directed to do the landings were, principally, from
> >>New
> >>>Zealand and Australia. The invasion was a disaster, and the troops
> >>on
> >>>shore were left there without reinforcement for weeks. In addition to
> >>a
> >>>disaster, it was a disgrace for the casualty rate was appalling.
> >>WWI is
> >>>noted today for its casualty rates, and the dogged determination of
> >>>strategic planners to continue pushing an immovable object against an
> >>>irresistible force.
> >>
> >>Sounds terrible. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the
> >>US
> >>wasn't involved in WW1?
> >>
> >>Philip Raby
> >>Editor, MG World
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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> "But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
> I have spread my dreams under your feet;
> Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
> Yeats
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