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Re: Shooting pilots in their parachutes
The Americans believed the Germans could always build more fighters, no matter what was done to their aircraft industry, so the way to destroy the Luftwaffe was by killing its pilots. It has been argued that verbal instructions to that effect were given to American fighter pilots beginning around February 1944. No one has satisfactorily proven this yet, but it sounds logical. There are numerous examples of this in the Jochen Prien histories of individual Jagdgeschwader and in the Alfred M. de Zayas books on Allied war crimes against German soldiers and civilians.
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