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Old 09-14-2010, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by bf-110 View Post
Wasn´t shooting at downed pilots forbidden by all AFs during WWII?(Except for some japanese pilots that shot at US pilots in mid air)
Also shooting at medics and those stuff?
Maybe, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. On both sides.
A pilot bailing out on home territory will be able to fight again.
Bailing out over enemy territory, he's a P.O.W.
Dowding believed the Germans would be justified in shooting at RAF pilots in their 'chutes over Britain, but disagreed with RAF pilots shooting at German pilots under their 'chutes over Britain.
The Czecs and Poles in the RAF made their own rules, allegedly.
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