12 May 1941, in Iraq
An He.111 bearing Major Axel von Blomberg, the newly appointed liaison officer to Rashid Ali and the son of the German field-marshal, had come in to land at Baghdad. As the aircraft flew in low over the north bridge some irresponsible tribesmen fired off a few pot-shots with their rifles. When the reception-party at the airport opened the door of the aircraft they found, not the vigorous adviser and coordinator they had expected, but a dead German with a bullet in his head.
Source:
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/U...-RAF-I-11.html
Brian, I should have the time to send you more about the French cases in the end of the week.