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Monday, March 17, 2008

The Pilot Who Shot Down the Little Prince

Editor Paul Hehn, manning the Fairy Tales and Air Power desk, has just profiled Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of The Little Prince.

He passes along this odd little report from The Mail (UK) about a WWII Luftwaffe ace who loved Saint-Exupéry's books -- and just found out that he himself shot down the author in 1944.

Posted by Mr. Holznagel at 7:22 PM