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Old 29th August 2009, 15:09
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Re: Red-Cross marked He59s July 1940

Infantrymen running from an enemy advance even if they have discarded their weapons are still fired on as are tank crews jumping from destroyed tanks. It is quite logical to seek to kill enemy aircrew who otherwise will return to attack ones country although not a choice everyone would make.
with the slight difference that when the SND plane appears , battle is over , it seems that this case hv to be compare with action of sanitary services in the field , noone take excuse of the fact that the salvaged wounded will probably be in action later to shot at these men, seems to be the original cause of the red-cross building,
WW2 move day after day to an "unlimited" war, shooting at ambulance planes seems to be a typical down-step from civilized war, giving rationnal reasons to explain that means that some other down-step are very near

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