This extraordinary footage captures a moment rarely seen in the chaos of the First World War — honour and humanity shown to a fallen enemy. Here, on 22 April 1918 at Bertangles, Allied airmen gather not in victory, but in respect. They carry wreaths, march slowly along a quiet country road, and stand with arms reversed as they prepare to bury the man known across the skies as The Red Baron. Fragments of his scarlet Fokker triplane are presented — the machine guns that once rained fire, now silen

The mount of Raymond Collishaw’s ‘Black Flight’ - the Sopwith Triplane #ww1 #ww1history #sopwith #triplane #warbirds | Daniel J Wheatcroft