A bigger mystery than The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was the question of who was responsible for the downing of the Red Baron's plane on 21 April, 1918.
In a venture into new forms of disseminating history, the Australian War Memorial has put up rare footage of the funeral of Baron Manfred von Richthofen on You Tube here, and even embedded the youtube video into their website here.
The AWM notes, "Within a day of being recovered from its crash site, most of Richthofen’s plane had been souvenired, leaving little more than a frame " Interestingly there is footage of the crashed plane at the start of the video, and various men can be seen happily examining it and probably souveniring.
Von Richthofen was accorded full military honours, and you will see in the film.
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