Attacks on Luftwaffe Red-Cross aircraft!

[Six Nifty .50s]

Originally Posted by ju55dk

Over the years there have been much debate on this subject, as RAF attacked these planes in 1940. It has been said that they were ordered on the grounds that these planes reported about allied ships and so on. Until now there have been no solid evidence to this. But in the KTB from Seenotzentrale Nord a case it reported were the "Seenotflugzeug" did report something like this! Se attached file. It's noted that these aircraft were not reported to the international Red Cross, as were the case with hospitalships!

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In the World War II unit history of the US 9th Infantry Division, Eight Stars to Victory, there is a photograph of a captured German half-track that was clearly marked as an ambulance. The rear exit door was opened to display the interior, which was filled with German infantry weapons and ammunition.

[marsyao]

Ju55dk, the reasons why RAF attacked on Luftwaffe Red-Cross aircraft were British considered those shot down Luftwaffe pilots were still soldiers, and if they were allowed to be resecured, they would have a chance to fight another day, the second reason was that British suspected those Luftwaffe resecured aircrafts were also collecting British convoy information, so the policy of RAF was "Yes, we will do our best to resecure the downed Luftwaffe pilots by ourself, and no, we would not allow you to resecure them"
To be faire, RAF never pained their resecure aircrafts with red cross