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Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper
So the way I read it, while you can shoot paratroopers descending in distress, you can't shoot shipwrecked marines. Please feel free to point out mistakes, though.
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If you are an armed soldier in a boat that can get you ashore into the combat zone (the very same boats that the Japs used in their amphib landings in many cases) then you are not shipwrecked.
It is exactly the same principle as the difference between Paratroopers and Parachutists.
You could arguably boil it down to the fact that they were armed and close to the (land) combat zone.