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Re: Likely Prevalence of LW shooting Parachutist
Nick,
This is true and what I believe is that some percentage of ALL fighter pilots (both sides-10%?) did this. I have heard of specific examples from articles in Flypast and MACR reports of at least two circumstances , a B-26 crew in the MEd and a shot down B-17 crew in France which was witnessed by a evadee Typhoon pilot.
After all, it was War and some people actually like to kill other people. I've read plenty pilot histories where they agonize over the first kill when they realize they've killed someone. While there are others who enjoy the blood sport. Such is the nature of man.
This new book coming out with the recoding of captured German POWs promises to be interesting.
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