Episode 34: Moving On

CHAPTER 1: PREPARING FOR BATTLE

Here's the World War I Flying Ace preparing yet again to do battle with the Red Baron. His flight crew does last minute checks before our hero prepares to take off. He gathers all of his bearings and hops into the cockpit of his Sopwith Camel. After buckling in and turning on the engines, he heads for the runway. Off he goes in search of the Red Baron.

After the turn of the century

In the clear blue skies over Germany

Came a roar and a thunder men had never heard

Like the screamin' sound of a big war bird

Up in the sky, a man in a plane

Baron von Richthofen was his name

Eighty men tried, and eighty men died

Now they're buried together on the countryside

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more

The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score

Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree

Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany

In the nick of time, a hero arose

A funny-looking dog with a big black nose

He flew into the sky to seek revenge

But the Baron shot him down - "Curses, foiled again!"

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more

The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score

Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree

Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany

Now, Snoopy had sworn that he'd get that man

So he asked the Great Pumpkin for a new battle plan

He challenged the German to a real dogfight

While the Baron was laughing, he got him in his sight

That Bloody Red Baron was in a fix

He'd tried everything, but he'd run out of tricks

Snoopy fired once, and he fired twice

And that Bloody Red Baron went spinning out of sight

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more

The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score

Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree

Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany

Well, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more

The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score

Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree

Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany

Our hero had shot down the Baron, and went to land his Sopwith Camel to capture the Baron. When he landed and tried to find the Baron, he was gone. German forces had rescued the Baron and took off for parts unknown. The Flying Ace had tried to find the trail of the Baron, but was unsuccessful. So the Flying Ace made it back to his plane and headed back for home base. This time the Flying Ace had got lucky that HE wasn't the one that got shot down for once.

NEXT CHAPTER: ANOTHER DOUBLE DATE

"Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" written by Dick Holler and Phil Gernhard

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