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   XPost: alt.politics.uk   
   From: wb8foz@panix.com   
      
   pyotr filipivich  writes:   
      
   >	As has been pointed out many times: RAF pilots shot down, were   
   >shot down over their own country.  If was possible for you to get shot   
   >down in the morning and be back up in the afternoon.  Possible, I   
   >don't know if that happened.   
      
   Not just pilots, but aircraft. The UK would actively salvage fighters   
   and haul them back to be rebuilt.   
      
   This actually caused a morale issue; the public would see many lorries   
   carrying RAF aircraft wrecks but none with German ones.   
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