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WW2 pilot interview...awesome x's a gazillion...
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:59 pm
by Shapecharge
WW2 pilot on his feelings about shooting helpless men in parachutes.
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Re: WW2 pilot interview...awesome x's a gazillion...
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:29 pm
by baffled
Re: WW2 pilot interview...awesome x's a gazillion...
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:52 pm
by Fat Cat
Knights of the sky.
Re: WW2 pilot interview...awesome x's a gazillion...
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:52 am
by johno
Payback.
Of course, that was in the "Gentlemen's" Theater of War. Things were more brutal fighting those dirty Nips.
According to the findings of the Tokyo Tribunal, the death rate of Western prisoners was 27.1%, seven times that of POWs under the Germans and Italians.[45] The death rate of Chinese was much higher. Thus, while 37,583 prisoners from the United Kingdom, Commonwealth, and Dominions, 28,500 from the Netherlands, and 14,473 from the United States were released after the surrender of Japan, the number for the Chinese was only 56.[46] Of the 27,465 United States Army and United States Army Air Forces POWs in the Pacific Theater, they had a 40.4% death rate.[47] After the war, it became clear that there existed a high command order – issued from the War Ministry in Tokyo – to kill all remaining POWs.[48]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war#Japanese
Re: WW2 pilot interview...awesome x's a gazillion...
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 2:24 am
by Fat Cat
Zipperheads are a different category altogether.
Re: WW2 pilot interview...awesome x's a gazillion...
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:42 pm
by Bob Wildes
Well done.
Re: WW2 pilot interview...awesome x's a gazillion...
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 2:25 pm
by nafod
Better to have holed the parachute and turn it into a streamer, but mission accomplished.
