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Originally Posted by HW3
My point was to say both sides committed war time atrocities, Germany's are just more well known due to Nuremberg.
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On that we are completely agreed. Combat changes people, and you never know what you are capable of until it happens.
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Originally Posted by J0313
Actually you are allowed by the laws of land warfare at the time to shoot paratroopers while in their chutes. You are not however, allowed to shoot aircrewman who are attempting to escape a downed aircraft in their chutes. The diffirence is one is a combatant while in his chute and the other isnt.
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Can you show where these laws are written? I'd like to see them. I heard an American fighter pilot give a lecture once, and he was asked about Germans and Japanese shooting pilots in their 'chutes. He said the only story he could confirm of a pilot shooting another in his parachute was when he did it himself. He had barely survived the dogfight, and barely won it, and he said as the German pilot was climbing out of his cockpit all he could think of was that this guy might shoot down one or more of his buddies the next day, so he went ahead and killed him. He refused to comment on how he felt about it.