(ArtKramr) wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:
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

That, in addition to the fact that the 262 was 130 kts. faster than
anything the U.S. could put in the air explains why the Americans
were ordered to kill 262 pilots in their chutes or on the ground
rather than pay homage to the Nazi *******s.

-Mike Marron