Interesting Video

[AH_JimDandy]

I was not aware of the out come on this vid clip.

I did some research and it happened allot.

 

[MarcoRossolini]

For the Battle of Britain I kinda doubt it... Considering where they were fighting most of the time, they wouldn't have enough fuel to even reach Ireland...

 

Though of course it must have happened (in particular to lost US bomber crews who'd flown the Atlantic...)

[Cybermat47]

Nice little film. Not that accurate, but still pretty damn good.

[Finkeren]

Preposterous to say the least, but nicely made.

 

I just can't get over that he's deliberately ramming an already stricken plane at treetop level. That cracked my up in all its sillyness.

[Cybermat47]

I just can't get over that he's deliberately ramming an already stricken plane at treetop level. That cracked my up in all its sillyness.

It's equal parts silly and awesome in my opinion

[AH_JimDandy]

For the Battle of Britain I kinda doubt it... Considering where they were fighting most of the time, they wouldn't have enough fuel to even reach Ireland...

 

Though of course it must have happened (in particular to lost US bomber crews who'd flown the Atlantic...)

Agreed Marco,

  The fact that it seems allot of the pilots or crews stayed in Ireland and became citizens . I am guessing it was more a house arrest kinda thing then a POW camp?

[Tektolnes]

There were a number of planes that crashed in Ireland - both British and German - all through the war. The Germans even bombed us a couple of times by accident thinking they were over England.

 

We were officially a neutral country at that time having gained full independence from England not long before WW2 broke out. As such any pilots who crash landed or bailed out there were supposed to be interned for the duration of the war. In practice it was only Germans who were interned while the police would often look the other way and allow some British pilots to "escape" to Northern Ireland and get back in the fight.