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Originally Posted by Catfish
^ Never heard of that, only from "Taffy" Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ira_Thomas_Jones
"My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals."
Seems it was in WW1 though (?), Jones only flew for a very short time during the BoB.
There was some discussion whether it was allowed to shoot at bailed-out pilots with parachutes over enemy territory, when the pilot would live to fight another day, but after all you seldom hear of that.
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Pilots bailing out must have been pretty late in the war, because the first Parachutes to german aircraft pilots were issued in late July early August 1918. The RAF and the other allied air forces did not issue Parachutes to aircraft crews during WW1.