Who fired the fatal shot?The identity of the person who shot the Red Baron remains unknown; .303 was the standard calibre for all machine guns and rifles used by British Empire forces during World War I. The Royal Air Force gave official credit to Roy Brown. However, it is now considered all but certain by historians, doctors, and ballistics experts that Richthofen was killed by someone on the ground, as the wound through his body indicated that it had been caused by a bullet moving in an upward motion, and, more importantly, that it was probably received some time after Brown's attack.Most experts believe that the shot probably came from Sergeant Cedric Popkin, an anti-aircraft (AA) machine gunner with the Australian 24th Machine Gun Company, using a Vickers gun.[6] Popkin fired at Richthofen's plane on at least two separate occasions: once as the baron was heading straight at his position and again as Richthofen passed on his right, about 600 yards away. Popkin later stated — in a letter (which included a sketch map) to the Australian official war historian in 1935 — that he believed he had fired the fatal shot as the plane approached his position the first time. He saw it jerk and believed that was when he hit the pilot. However, such a shot would have been from directly in front of the plane and could not have resulted in Richthofen's death.[7] Nevertheless, Popkin was in the best position to fire the fatal shot when Richthofen passed him the second time, on the right. It has been calculated that Richthofen lived for less than a minute after he was hit and Popkin is the only ground-based machine gunner known to have fired at Richthofen from the right, within that time frame.It is sometimes suggested that Gunners Robert Buie and W.J. "Snowy" Evans, both Lewis machine gunners with the 53rd Battery, Royal Australian Artillery may have fired the fatal shot. They are not generally considered good candidates, as the flight path of Richthofen's plane meant they would have fired straight at Richthofen's plane. There is no evidence that Buie and Evans fired at Richthofen from the right.[8]
General Tomás José Basto Machado
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