This is from a story I saw on CBC today. Seems Luftwaffe pilot Horst Rippert thinks he shot down the author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The famous French author was flying a Lockheed P-38 Lightning on July 31, 1944 when he disappeared. Rippert is quoted, in an exclusive in the French magazine, Le Figaro, as saying he shot him down. It later quotes him as saying he didn't actually see the pilot and would have backed off the fight if he had known who it was.
Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint Exupéry, his full name (they don't have book covers wide enough) was a famous aviator and aviation writer before he wrote the The Little Prince while in New York in 1942.
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