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Re: Shooting pilots in their parachutes
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Originally Posted by kb
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My father had a 'dutch uncle' conversation with Henry discussing the fine line between 'rightous killing' and 'not so rightous killing'. The distinction in his mind was leaving the airplane..Henry developed an art form of sliding off to one side at close range and blasting the cockpit trying to kill the pilot... sometimes the film showed he was still shooting as the pilot separated.
My father did point out that there were a lot more 8th AF crews bailing out over Germany than German fighter pilots.
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