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Former German Luftwaffe pilot crashes in light plane in Britain
Aug 8, 2008, 12:23 GMT
London - A former bomber pilot in Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe who survived being shot down nine times during World War II has crashed in a light aircraft he co-piloted on a pleasure flight to Britain, the Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
Willi Schludecker, 88, made headlines earlier this year when he visited the historic city of Bath, in western Britain, to offer a personal and public apology for his role in bombing missions in 1942.
Bath, a city famous for its Roman foundations, was targeted in Germany's so-called Baedecker raids reputedly chosen by the Luftwaffe from the tourist guides of the same name.
Schludecker took part in a memorial service to commemorate the 400 victims of the Bath raids earlier this year.
Last week, he planned to return to the city to show its landmarks to a relative of one of the victims.
Schludecker, now too frail to fly alone, was in the co-pilot's seat when the four-seater Mooney M20T aircraft came down in a field just outside Bath, the paper said.
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Its pathetic that the article doesn't mention his condition...
What shoddy journalism.
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Well then,Aug 9th, 2008 - 03:25:47
did the Nazi killer survive?? The article didn't say.
D. Cohen
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