Surprising quality gun camera footage from japanese theatre.

[moilami]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

Very well said. There would have been nasty people on both sides who shot at chutes for fun - I'm not talking about them. There would have been those like the RAF Polish who shot for revenge, or anger - I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about those that don't like killing, but recognised that a job had to be done, and as moilami put it, sacrificed their own humanity. I also appreciate that many pilots wouldn't want to make that sacrifice (I certainly wouldn't want to), but I think of those pilots as humans like me, not as honourable knights.

I am glad someone got it exactly. You mentioned all those examples I was thinking will I have to write about. That kind of things has been done, and there is no point in judging from history instead of learning from it.

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

So it was frowned upon, big deal. This is about understanding how nasty war is, and looking at the bigger picture. Shooting the enemy is not savage. If they are over your territory with little chance of evading capture, that's different, but if they can return to fight...

Exactly. It was very nasty. Now, if we want to learn more, the question is who was the bigger coward, the soldier who shot down chute pilots while totally hating to do it and sacrificed everything he had to stop the war or Knight of the Sky who had "honour" and did not shoot chutes? Just asking. Real WW2, no sandboxes.

Or of course we could keep things in kids level black&white and stop discussing. This is already too much for some I think.