Velius
Airman 1st Class
Simply amazing. I've heard a similar story involving a P-47 and FW-190. The painting of the the fortress and 109 is very nice! 8)
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well gents no offence to anyone here but I heard this story before and always wondered myself how could something like that ever happen? I mean this is a very amazing story but for me that sort of chivalry was always beyond understanding. I mean at one side you have a bomber and at the other side you have a fighter defending its own country and its fellow citizens. He knows what this bomber did to this city and still pardoing him?
I mean I can exactly imagine what were the feelings of some Baltic Fleet pilot in the 1941 or 1942 who defended its home city of Leningrad under siege while hundreds of thousands were dying there..
No offence to anyone, just some thoughts..
You have to understand the German military which had a deep code of Prussian honor which included chivarly. The major difference between the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Navy and Nazism. They fought as soldiers without political agendas.
That's open to dispute, but that's another story. Don't want to start another flame war here.
How is that? There were millions of soldiers who had no political connection.
I'm not arguing that. I'm talking rather about the supposed chivalry of the German wehrmacht or any armed force in the WW2. Such cases like that were rather exceptions to the rule in that war. At least on the Eastern front, where both sides shot at the pilots who bailed out of their planes .
So I don't see it as very strange that in the heat of combat, opposing soldiers would show a little humanity to each other. That is not to say that inhumanity also happened at times by certain individuals. It was war.
the pilots in Question was Egon Mayer and robert S johnson.Simply amazing. I've heard a similar story involving a P-47 and FW-190. The painting of the the fortress and 109 is very nice! 8)
I'm not arguing that. I'm talking rather about the supposed chivalry of the German wehrmacht or any armed force in the WW2. Such cases like that were rather exceptions to the rule in that war. At least on the Eastern front, where both sides shot at the pilots who bailed out of their planes .
Very interesting info Roman, thanks for that...
It's a sad fact of war, there are instances on both sides of this issue that show both the best and worst in men. It's a tough decision, do you let the guy bailing out live, and chance him coming back up in the air and killing you? I don't think i could have shot someone hanging from a chute, but they were in a different place.