Rule one of the bomber crews. Do not bail out over the town you just bombed. I've read an account of a B17 crew that got lynched after they were transported thru a town that had been bombed by the RAF the night before.
True, the USAF still advises against it. But the risk wasn't all on the Allied side. Several German pilots got lynched in cases of mistaken identity. Gunther Räll almost got pitchforked by an angry famer after he was shot down.
11-30-2010, 02:20 PM
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