March 18, 2008

German learns he killed his favorite author in World War Two

Le Petit PrinceSaint-Exupery

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.

The fliers clashed in the skies over southern France in July 1944.

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