[rlmorel]

I really did not make that up. You can see references to it in books written by pilots in the 357th Fighter Group, and 56th Fighter group.

We had carrier pilots strafing and pounding the crap out of Japan near the end of the war, flying fighters.

It wasn't considered a war crime at that point. How could they?

[txroadkill]

Thanks for the references (kind of, now I'll be up all night reading). I may have read that before and just didn't file it as remarkable because in context it probably seemed like the right thing to do.