[drgondog]

I would be skeptical to assign the evidence of a shot up German pilot corpse to being shot up in his chute. I have seen a lot of combat film showing heavy strikes in the cockpit area, and shooting continuing at the pilot was trying to bail out.

In a dogfight, the idiot that hangs around to get a shot at a German flier is setting himself up the be shot down himself.

Hartmann recounts his fear that the four Mustangs that chased him down would kill him in his chute - but of course it didn't happen.

There were a lot of pilots strafed while crash landing after being shot down.