The two pilots are very different; Brown ruffles the feathers of his squadron mates by refusing to drink a toast to Richthofen, while the Baron awards himself silver trophies in honour of his kills, and clashes with fellow pilot Hermann G�ring ( Barry Primus ) when Boelcke is killed after a mid-air collision and Richthofen assumes command of the squadron.
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Filling it from the spring he oblidged Strates to drink a toast to " His Majesty King George III and a long line of princes " and another to " Catherine, Empress of all the Russians " this last was a gesture to Strates'Greek origin, since Catherine the Great was just then at war with the Turks in the Aegean Sea.