most super-based non-credible air-to-air combat of all time
most super-based non-credible air-to-air combat of all time
most super-based non-credible air-to-air combat of all time
For ever crazy stunt pulled off in one of those games, even crazier shit has happened in real life. Humans under extreme stress in life threatening situations tend to get really creative.
How did they confirm this? (I don’t doubt it but still)
During WW2, the Japanese were shooting airmen who have ejected. This was a MAJOR no no in wartime. So the only reason a Japanese plane would have been in striking distance from an ejected airman, would be because the Japanese airman was trying to kill him.
Another fun fact. During war, snipers don't ever shoot a person who is taking a shit.
I am going to need a source for your fun fact. That sounds like shit.
Here is the source for the parachutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_parachutists
For the pooping in thing, after doing a bunch of research, the "rule" was mostly memoirs and interviews about what the West did. This could be an attempt to rewrite history to make the West look better. But here are a couple of sources I found.
During the civil war: https://dailycaller.com/2017/01/10/civil-war-rule-of-engagement-protected-urinating-with-pants-down-dont-shoot-principle/
Short video about it: https://youtube.com/shorts/PhWraPN46jc?si=OYHA-bM0OE27Zr_f
as in he threw it?
Maybe he had some extensions to his 1911 like Nordberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSG_23DTvKs
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Naked_Gun_2_1/2:_The_Smell_of_Fear#Nordberg.27s_Gun
"ON CRIP, ON GOD, HE DID THAT SHIT"
That's not what happened.
Dude was parachuting and shot a pilot too close to him because the Japanese pilot shot down his bomber and attempted the war crime of attacking a pilot under chute.
https://www.thearmorylife.com/when-a-1911-shot-down-a-japanese-zero/
The Japanese Zero that hit Baggett circled back around for a closer look, intent on finishing him off if he wasn’t already dead. Thinking quickly, Baggett pulled his pistol from its holster, played dead, and hung limp in his parachute harness as the plane came toward him.
As the Zero pilot neared Owen’s body, he opened the canopy over the cockpit to get a close look. At that moment, Baggett came to life, raised his 1911 semi-automatic pistol, and fired four rounds into the cockpit. One or more of Owen’s rounds hit home, as the Zero spun out and ended its assault against him.
Japanese pilots were well known for shooting down parachutes.
A parachuting pilot is protected under the geneva convention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_parachutists
Such parachutists are considered hors de combat and it is made a war crime to attack them in an interstate armed conflict under Additional Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
War crime with style
Shooting at a fighter aircraft while in a parachute seems like a very bad idea to me, you're in trouble if the pilot shoots back.
Odds are if a fighter is close enough for a pistol then the fighters were committing war crimes by shooting parachuting aviators. The Japanese were known for shooting down parachutes.
It wasn't a war crime back then, of course.
It was the guy in the parachute who was shooting back. The Japanese were known for shooting down ejected pilots.
They're moving pretty quickly relative to you. By the time they realize you've shot at them, they'll be hundreds of meters away. If they then decide to turn around (since they have to be facing you to shoot you) and come for another run at you...honestly they were probably going to do it anyway.
Iirc he shot at the Japanese pilot because he was shooting pilots who had already bailed which is an unwritten rule of fighter combat.