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    11 months ago

    A parachuting pilot is protected under the geneva convention.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_parachutists

    Such parachutists are considered hors de combat and it is made a war crime to attack them in an interstate armed conflict under Additional Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

    • Protocol I was added in 1977. World War II ended in 1945.

    • While some of the Geneva Conventions – not the relevant ones – predated World War II, Japan was not a party to even those until after World War II.