Brooklyn NSW

A tired old sea port, gateway to Dangar Island, and home of the famous Brooklyn Railway Bridge, the one that was built by the Americans from, well... Brooklyn, hence the name of the town. (It fell down after twelve years and was rebuilt by Aussies, but that's another story).
This little village on the shores of the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney is about as run down as an old tyre, and I think the locals want to keep it that way. There has been little or really no development in the area, but it still manages to pull a crowd of mostly boaties every weekend who gather on the launching ramps with their tinnies and cruisers alike.
There is, however, one thing that Brooklyn is not widely known for. One of the greatest war stories ever told, one that has attracted controversy for more than eighty years.
The shooting down of the Red Baron...
Manfred Von Richthofen - the famous German Flying Ace of WW1, was shot down on 21st April 1918, by Gunner Robert Buie of the Australian 53rd battery over the Somme in France. Or so they say at Brooklyn, and that fact is testified on the headstone in the local cemetery.
Debate about this has raged since that fateful day in 1918, with the Canadians, English and even the New Zealanders getting in the credit. The official line from the British High Command was that a Canadian RAF pilot 'shot down the Baron' however there is enough evidence to dispute the fact that the final shot could not have come from the air, it must have been a ground shot.
Only two gunners were in position to have fired the fatal bullet. Gunner Buie and Gunner Popkin of the 24th Machine Gun Company.
The dispute still rages to this day, but the final words rest on Gunner Buie's headstone. Brooklyn's hero.