Ya, sure buddy. “Intent on finishing him off”, pilot “opening the canopy to get a better look”, it all sounds like bullshit.
If the other pilot wanted to shoot the parachuting guy, why not just do it, instead of going through this weird dance of “I’ll check if he’s dead”? How do they know he was “intent on finishing him off”? Even if this weird “checking if alive” thing happened, maybe he wanted to radio back that a combatant on a parachute fell to the ground, so the military police can expect one?
Man if you think that’s the most unbelievable thing a Japanese soldier did between 1937 to 1945 you’re really not going to like hearing about Nanking and Unit 731.
It wasn’t uncommon to open your canopy to get a better view, I don’t know what to tell you besides watch some old dogfight interviews.
The Soviets were practically infamous for always flying with them open. Not unreasonable to think a pilot that considered combat over might open his canopy.
And, also, sucks to suck. War crime protections are agreements between nations on standards of behavior, and Imperial Japan violated them all, so even if it was:
The outlandish part isn’t “guy got shot”. The outlandish part is “the guy who shot him bragged about shooting him then made an entire story up why it was cool to shoot him. Now people celebrate the shooter despite it being a literal warcrime”.
Ya, sure buddy. “Intent on finishing him off”, pilot “opening the canopy to get a better look”, it all sounds like bullshit.
If the other pilot wanted to shoot the parachuting guy, why not just do it, instead of going through this weird dance of “I’ll check if he’s dead”? How do they know he was “intent on finishing him off”? Even if this weird “checking if alive” thing happened, maybe he wanted to radio back that a combatant on a parachute fell to the ground, so the military police can expect one?
Man if you think that’s the most unbelievable thing a Japanese soldier did between 1937 to 1945 you’re really not going to like hearing about Nanking and Unit 731.
Both entirely irrellevant to a guy claiming that a flying-by pilot “opened their canopy” to check if they are still alive.
It wasn’t uncommon to open your canopy to get a better view, I don’t know what to tell you besides watch some old dogfight interviews.
The Soviets were practically infamous for always flying with them open. Not unreasonable to think a pilot that considered combat over might open his canopy.
And, also, sucks to suck. War crime protections are agreements between nations on standards of behavior, and Imperial Japan violated them all, so even if it was:
Good, fuck that fash.
You know most deaths in WW1 of pilots were literally small arms, it’s not at all outlandish.
You’re being obtuse.
The outlandish part isn’t “guy got shot”. The outlandish part is “the guy who shot him bragged about shooting him then made an entire story up why it was cool to shoot him. Now people celebrate the shooter despite it being a literal warcrime”.
Or it happened and you’re just kind of an ass lol.