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Originally Posted by drgondog
Good sentiments - what triggered my response was an unfounded, undocumented reference to an 'instruction' from FDR to Doolittle. Doolittle is not alive to rebut Oberst and Oberst is not forthcoming with his documentation for such character assasination.
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If there was an instruction there should be a written order somewhere.
Having said that I did see gun camera footage from an American P-51 where a German pilot hanging in a parachute was shot, and saw the very same veteran pilot bragging about it in a documentary. He claimed that the German pilot had done it first, and wanted to give him his own medicine. The documentary also featured the Bf109 ace Günther Rall, but I can't remember its name.
Anyway, if anyone has new sources on this, that would be interesting. If not this whole thread is not very useful, in my humble opinion.