Re: Cover ups: Erratum

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

At 05:09 PM 8/9/01 -1000, Patricia Winston (Trish) wrote:
>make that "hors" de combat.   A soldier in open ocean who has survived a
>sinking is not targeted.  An aviator in a parachute who survived an aircraft
>shootdown may not be targeted, but a paratrooper descending in a parachute
>may be targeted.
>
>It may make a difference whether the drowning soldiers were carrying
>weapons, but whether they may or may not have surrendered is completely
>irrelevant.

Trish

Thanks for bringing the discussion to the Korean War era.  However, the
discussion arose over the state of the law in World War II, and the law
then was as I set it out.  

Marc

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