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Old 31st December 2007, 01:19
Franek Grabowski Franek Grabowski is offline
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Re: Luftwaffe rescue buoys

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Originally Posted by Jan vd Heuvel View Post
Although it is true that the Udet-buoys were shot at by the British, they still saved a lot of lives (Germans and British airmen).
Still, their purpose was to save Germans and not British.
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To my knowledge the "chivalry" in airwarfare was blown away by the Germans when they used He-59s with Red Cross markings to shadow British convoys and subsequently sent information about these convoys to the German U-boat wolfpacks.
There chivalry stopped already during WWI, and there was no chivalry at all during WWII.
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