The last flight - The Fate of the little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

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#1

hello fellas!

maybe you already knew it, but the fate of the legendary writer and pilot antoine de saint-exupéry is now cleared up totally. he was shot down in his recce p-38 by a german 109-pilot HORST RIPPERT. rippert is the brother of a quite famous singer who died a few days ago - IVAN REBROFF

here is a nice short film on that topic. sad fate for a genius like exupéry. but the monster war does not make a halt in front of such people who enrich our culture. the german pilot later stated that he would have never shot at the lightning if he had knew that exupéry was on the steerings.

http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=4536761053861313273&q=der+letzte+flug&total=32&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

jens

#2

Sad how war unknowingly gets people against each other.

#3

Good link I ve posted already but is always interesting to look in the original source.

#4

additional link from the partial recovery of St-Ex’s plane:

http://www.aero-relic.org/English/F-5B_42-68223_St_Exupery/e-00-stexuperyf5b.htm