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Re: Air attacks on civilian aircraft
Total war, indeed. I believe you will find that direct killing of civilians is against the various conventions, and that civil aircraft are covered therein. Hence the retention throughout the war of large prominent registrations and colourful trim - even if on a basically camouflaged aircraft!
There is a case in one of Christopher Shores' books of (Malta-based?) Beaufighters shooting down an Italian airliner carrying women and children.
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