Richard "Bud" Peterson: P-51 ace on shooting at parachutes...enjoy!

**401Cdn. Beagle** · Dec-26-2014, 05:36

You can just feel the anger.

**Black034** · Dec-27-2014, 09:24

Hardly something you should label with "enjoy" but yeah..

Desperate times.

Can't even imagine the feelings both Allied and Axis pilots went through.

**ATAG_Lewis** · Dec-27-2014, 13:12

Interesting...We all know it went on...even when pilots denied it...it happened

Thanks for sharing Beagle...good spot!

**401Cdn. Beagle** · Dec-27-2014, 13:23

Enjoy! Was intended to appreciate the seldom story of a WWII pilot telling his tale, which is, of course horrific. I believe a Gentlemans agreement was in force here and for one unfortunate German pilot, by breaking this agreement, his life ended in the same horrific manner. So yeah. Enjoy!

**TWC_SLAG** · Dec-27-2014, 13:52

I'm confused. Clarence "Bud" Anderson relates exactly the same story, except he was the one doing the shooting. Maybe it's just them getting old, and confused.

I take my hat off to them both, and all the other pilots who knew the odds and went up everyday, anyway.

badfinger

**401Cdn. Beagle** · Dec-28-2014, 02:04

Spot on! I had a check and found this old gem:

Buds most important statement, in my opinion comes at 1:39

Thanks for the heads up badfinger!

**ashikaga** · Dec-28-2014, 08:24

Sometimes though, things went a little different, like in the case of Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie...igler_incident