Shooting pilots in their parachutes

[chuckschmitz]

Paratrooper are considered combatants in that they can engage the enemy upon landing.

[Nick Beale]

To quote Bernard Cribbins: "After straining, heaving and complaining, we was getting nowhere …"

[RT]

It seems that civilization, is not just the written rules, maybe just the contrary , but a common behaviour so usually the air-fighting non-written rules say dont shoot at a defenceless foe, but when you name , a very bad american-habit , the ennemy a damned-bastard to slaughter at any cost, there is no more civilization,

Rémi

[Larry deZeng]

Originally Posted by RT

It seems that civilization, is not just the written rules, maybe just the contrary , but a common behaviour so usually the air-fighting non-written rules say dont shoot at a defenceless foe, but when you name , a very bad american-habit , the ennemy a damned-bastard to slaughter at any cost, there is no more civilization,
Rémi

Excellent Rémi! I somehow knew we could count on you to re-nationalize this discussion, which is exactly what the moderator cautioned against. Thank you for collectively painting my entire nation of 310,000,000 people as a bunch of uncivilized barbarians. Were you in the military, Rémi? I was. Were you alive during World War II, Rémi? I was. Did the French drive the Germans out of France, Rémi, or did the Brits, Americans and Canadians do it? You had better be damn glad they came ashore and over the coast with hatred in their eyes instead of carrying a bouquet of flowers and kissing the Boche on both cheeks.