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Pilots didn't shoot each other when they both crashed?

posted 12 years ago by fedja100
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Did this ever occur on the Eastern Front? In WW2?
Or did all pilots (German-Russian) shoot each other as soon as they crashed?

[–] Hammerfanatic46 12 years ago

Not sure about the Eastern Front,but as the movie indicates,WW1 pilots considered themselves "Knights of the Sky".While such chivalry might not have been universal,it was certainly common.

Gordon P. Clarkson

[–] RbSnedlap 12 years ago

Just what happened to Frank Luke?

"Any plan that involves losing your hat is a BAD plan.""

[–] nickm2 12 years ago

Frank Luke carried a pair of Colt 45s & he wasn't going to be taking prisoner; he shot it out with the German squad sent to capture him---Though wikipedia says he was fatally wounded by a machinegun on the ground; after he crash landed he got out of his plane but died of his wound's later.

[–] jejozi 10 years ago

"In June 1917, after a lengthy dogfight, Göring shot down Australian pilot Frank Slee. The battle is recounted in The Rise and Fall of Hermann Göring. Göring landed and met the Australian, and presented Slee with his Iron Cross. Years after, Slee gave Göring's Iron Cross to a friend, who later died on the beach during the Normandy Landings. Also during the war Göring had through his generous treatment made a friend of his prisoner of war Captain Frank Beaumont, a Royal Flying Corps pilot. "It was part of Goering's creed to admire a good enemy, and he did his best to keep Captain Beaumont from being taken over by the Army.""

http://forum.worldofwarplanes.eu/index.php?/topic/667-hermann-goring/

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