Deliberate shooting down of fellow pilots

[Jon]

This is potentially a nasty subject and i am not looking to cause any offence at all...But it is one of interest and needs to be talked about

Reading Brian Kingcome's book "A Willingness To Die" he does state that during the launch of the film "The Battle of Britain" in 1969 he landed in deep and very hot water when he happened to mention to a journalist an account of a Squadron CO being deliberatley shot down over Europe by his pilots in 1941. The CO was evidently a poor leader and losing many of his men due to bad tactics. I do not know any names as, Mr Kingcome rightly mentions none, or if the CO managed to bale out into captivity

I have a few questions regards this.

1) Do you feel that time has now passed long enough to enable the names of all involved to be released?

2) I have read instances of Soldiers shooting a poor officer when engaged in combat, i am sure this happened a great deal during the thousands of years of warfare we humans have specialised in and i know the US troops in Vietnam even had a name for it "Fraggin" an officer. But did this happen a great deal in the air war on either side?

Again i stress that, having never been shot at in my life, i am making no assumptions nor laying any blame at the men who did and do these things.

Any thoughts.