Subject: Aircrew casualities
From: Mike Marron
Date: 9/19/03 6:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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DAN wrote:
Guy Alcala wrote:

There seems to have been one exception: in the case of the
Me-262, US fighter pilots were ordered to kill the pilots, in their chutes
or on the ground, according to Yeager and/or Clarence 'Bud' Anderson in
their biographies.

Why? difficult to train?

Nah. To kill the enemy.

-Mike (novel idea, eh?) Marron


The Germans supposedly put their best into the ME 262's

Arthur Kramer
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