Mike Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 The Songfacts Snoopy vs. The Red Baron In the early 60's Charles M Shultz (Sparky) began drawing his comic hero dog Snoopy in various engagemnet of battle with the Red Baron, using his doghouse as his own imaginary Sopwith Camel biplane. In the mid 60's the dialogue was features in a TV animation A boy named Charlie Brown, and in subsequent Peanuts TV specials Snoopy would engage in additional battles. The infamous Red Baron was Baron Manfred von Richthofen, flying for the Germans in War I, the plane he flew ... A bright red plane, the Red Baron was famous for downing 80 enemy aircraft, far surpassing a pilot named Boelcke, finally he was brought down by either Australian ground troops or a British Pilot Capt. Brown in April of 1918. The plane was ravaged for souvenirs, it was found that Richthofen was killed by a single bullet to the chest. He was 25 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 " .... 80 men died trying to end that spree, of the Bloody Red Baron from Germany ...." I drove my mother nuts playing that song over and over . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 Pink, The pilot, Brown, was Canadian ... don't give the Aussies something else to crow about that dosen't belong to them.... you don't wanna go there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 Pink, The pilot, Brown, was Canadian ... don't give the Aussies something else to crow about that dosen't belong to them.... you don't wanna go there... Kevin...really? That's not what I read, but hey, whose to quibble about that, since we still don't know if he was hit from the air or the ground, where the heck was Quincy or CSI back then?... Grissom, can we get Grissom on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 --- Canadian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Here is a cool site: http://www.rustyspell.com/art/snoopyredbaron.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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