Originally posted by P47Gra
Do you guys really think that the fighter jocks didnt go after a wonded duck or an RTB bomber. Dam straight they would. As some of you know my Grandad was a Jug pilot and he said there was no quarter given on any day. That pilot in your gunsight was coming for you also and would fill the plane and you full of cannon. I think the only time I would give a guy a break was when he bails and a CHUTE lights up. I enjoy bailing and watch the guy who shot me down get flamed by a squadie of mine. Yeah baby. Revenge is sweet.
So Stop Whining. Sounds like a Bish
Several times it did happen that a wounded Bomber dont got shot down. Mainly they got forced to land, one time for sure a german 109g pilot did lead the badly damaged B17, which lost orientation, over the coast, so it could rtb.
The german pilot later did live in canada, where someone found him 60 years later to thank him.
Also while BoB such things did happen.
I did read several storys where pilots of the damaged plane wrote about oponents who stopped the attack after the plane wasnt combat worthy anymore.
To shoot to pilots under the chute or to obvious not combat worthy planes imho is like killing POW´s which obvious will get freed within the next day´s.
Thats the morale of the dark age, "its war" is only a cheap excuse for the murders among the soldiers.
If we agree that killing soldiers under the chute or in a not combat worthy plane is ok to prevent that this solder will fight me again, then its also ok to kill the complete enemy population, to prevent that i need to fight them again(if Napoleon would have killed all Prussians in 1803, he wouldnt have lost Waterloo etc).
Such things are against our main religion and against the general condex of honour as well.
Who agree to such tactics shouldnt complain about terrorism, massacres and torture. Stalin, Hitler and some terrorists from today was/are like this, do we want to be in the same class, with the excuse "its war"??
Actually i cant understand that people come up with such a crappy argument in a "War Game", where the word game alone implement sportmanschip and fair play.
Many Soldiers in WWII was willing and able to follow the codex of honour, despite the HO particular gave other commands, why we should take the others as "good example" to follow??
Only my opinion.
Knegel