Poor Choice of Words...

[swiss]

Originally Posted by White Owl

It's a good point. Military combatants do not murder each other; they kill each other. "Murder" implies an illegal act.

No, murder implies a plan, an intention to kill s.o.
It would be manslaughter, which makes me think we should call it:
...slaughtered tail gunner.


Then again it's bs.
As an ex tank commander I can tell you we have the full intention to kill the enemy tank's crew and not the tank per se.
Why should you judge pilots different?
Why did so many pilots explicit aim for the cockpit?