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.