Talk:Wilfrid R. "Wop" May

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I remove the section that stated "It is now considered most likely that von Richthofen was killed by an anti-aircraft (AA) machine gunner, probably Sergeant Cedric Popkin of the Australian 24th Machine Gun Company, based on the range from which the bullet was shot and the angle and velocity the bullet must have had."

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 ballisitics 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

[edit] Wop May's Birthday

I changed the birthday from April 20 to March 20 beacuse in "Wings of a Hero" by Sheila Reid she cites March 20 several times throughout the text. This book was read and approved by Denny may and contains a foreword written by him. However the website does list the birthdate as April 20. I am going to do some more investigation into this and leave it at April 20 for now. Jaob (talk) 01:10, 25 November 2007 (UTC)