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A German fighter ace has just learned

A German fighter ace has just learned that one of his 28 wartime 'kills' was his favourite author. Messerschmidt pilot Horst Rippert, 88, said he would have held his fire if he had known the man flying the Lightning fighter was renowned French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. (via clusterflock)

By Jason Kottke    Mar 18, 2008 at 03:59 pm    antoinedesaintexupery   war   World War II

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