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In the book "Death Traps" (about American Tank units) the author mentions an incident where a Luftwaffe pilot was so intent on killing a B-17 crewman in a parachute that he ended up running into the ground (the crewman was unhurt).
Actually this has been covered here before a few times and proven.
USAF - Yes there was a couple groups that unofficially encouraged shooting German pilots, who flew jets, in their parachutes. Their thought was if they flew jets they had to be aces so lets kill them. Erich knows the groups off by heart. But by far most USAF pilots were against it as a rule.
What sorces do you have for 'encouragement' ??
UK - Never heard that it was encouraged or a rule.
Russia - Well of course they did, they were nearly as bad as the Japanese.
Sources?
Germany - Never encouraged or made a rule. They were against it always.
Yet there were reported examples!
Japanese - They were hands down the leaders in parachute kills.
That all being said there were of course certain cases of of pilots shooting other pilots in their chutes from all countries......but they were the exception and not the rule. Few and far between in most cases, unless you are talking about the Japanese (or Russian) of course.
This is from Tom Blackburn's, "The Jolly Rogers"*
Page 240: "Rog cold-bloodedly closed to within 100 yards and fired all his guns into the Zeke's wing root and engine. The Zeke's canopy slid back and the pilot hurtled into the slipstream just before the plane caught fire. Rog strafed the chute, but his shots probably only bracketed it."
Page 247-248: "As the gray fog evaporated, I spotted the recently blossomed parachute. I swung back to finish off the Japanese pilot; if I didn't, I reasoned, he probably would be up to meet us the next day -- smarter, and look for me. Unbelievably the harness was empty. A closer look at the dangling straps revealed that they had burned through. At that moment, it was not at all pleasant to think about the Japanese pilot's 18,000-foot unarrested dirve to the surface."
* Pocket Books paperback ISBN 0-671-69493-6
JL
Are you talking to me? in case you haven't noticed, the above is the only post I made on the subject. As for allegations, specific or otherwise, the only one I'm making is that you seem to be imagining things.
Talk about 'BS flags'...
JL