FIGHTING CHIVALRY
“SITTING BIRD INSANITY” LONDON, August 30. An example of the present British feelings toward Germans is provided by The Sunday Dispatch, which, in an article headed “Sitting Bird Insanity,” calls attention to an Air Ministry communique. This relates that a Coastal Command Hudson aircraft saw a Heinkel seaplane resting on the sea. “It could have been an easy prey,” the communique states, “but the British crew thought it would be unsporting to attack a sitting bird. So the Hudson, with its headlights blazing, twice dived toward the Heinkel, which finally accepted the challenge to fight and was destroyed." The Sunday Dispatch says: “Such tradition is sheer insanity in this war. Forty million Britons, the majority of whom do not care at all for the etiquette of pheasant-shooting, know that we must fight the war grimly, relentlessly, and even unscrupulously. “They do not criticize the handful of airmen whose peace-time instincts erred, but they ask whether the Air Ministry approves of British pilots inviting the Germans to shoot first”
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Southland Times, Issue 24229, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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170FIGHTING CHIVALRY Southland Times, Issue 24229, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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