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| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 104 Pfalz DIII | Parked | 12-Jan-17 16:05 |  | | Views : 339 | | May and fellow bush pilot Vic Horner flew out of Edmonton on Jan 2 1929 to try to deliver the Laryngeal Diptheria Innoculation Serum Antitoxin. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 104 Pfalz DIII | Parked | 12-Jan-17 16:01 |  | | Views : 399 | | After the war, May opened up Canada's first airfield in Edmonton, Alberta, and became a pioneering bush pilot. This is his Avro Avion (reproduction) plane on wheels that he flew. In Dec 1928 there was a Diptheria Epidemic out break 550 miles north of Edmonton in Fort Vermillion. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 104 Pfalz DIII | Parked | 12-Jan-17 15:53 |  | | Views : 384 | | In WW1 April 21, 1918, his guns were jammed, after trying to attack the Red Baron's cousin, in the middle of a dogfight, and he quickly dived out, but was chased by the Red Baron, who was trying to make May become his 81st kill. Roy Brown, May's squadron leader, came to the rescue. Here is a brief 5 minute animated short fim of this evocative acount. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rRaeTMB_Y The Baron did not crash, but actually landed hi Tripe intact, while mortally shot, behind enemy lines, and then died. Today, it is mostly agreed that the trajectory of the bullet that killed the Baron came from the ground - the Aussie machine gunner in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rRaeTMB_Y |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 104 Pfalz DIII | Parked | 12-Jan-17 15:39 |  | | Views : 362 | | He got his nickname "Wop" at age 6 from his 2 yr old cousin Mary, who could not pronounce Wilfrid, and kept calling him "Woppie". The family thought it delightful and gave Wilfrid the nickname "Wop". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rRaeTMB_Y |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 104 Pfalz DIII | Parked | 12-Jan-17 15:33 |  | | Views : 287 | | This is Canadian Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, WW1 Ace (13 kills), and pioneering Bush Pilot in Norhtern Alberta and North West Territories of Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rRaeTMB_Y |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 104 Pfalz DIII | Parked | 07-Jan-17 21:09 |  | | Views : 368 | |
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