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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
On that we are completely agreed. Combat changes people, and you never know what you are capable of until it happens.
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.
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Here is the link to the JAG copy of the laws in the Library of Congress.
It only has specific laws pertaining to Aircrewman. So that means that it was anything goes against Airborne forces.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_L...-warfare_7.pdf