 Editor in Chief Bill   | 05 Aug 2022 6:36 p.m. PST |
…Lt. Martin James Monti was desperately flying an unarmed, modified P-38 Lightning photo reconnaissance plane across the Italian Front. Monti was an Army Air Forces pilot, but he wasn't on a recon mission. He had stolen the plane and was headed for the Nazi-occupied city of Milan to defect to the German Army… Military: link |
Deucey  | 06 Aug 2022 8:38 a.m. PST |
I couldn't read that link. Here's another
link |
| Murvihill | 06 Aug 2022 8:48 a.m. PST |
"American Nazis, I hate'm." |
 The Virtual Armchair General  | 06 Aug 2022 10:05 a.m. PST |
Brother! Talk about walking the long way to get on the wrong bus…. TVAG |
| Nine pound round | 06 Aug 2022 3:33 p.m. PST |
And what timing! No time like the third quarter to join the losing team. |
| Old Glory | 07 Aug 2022 11:48 a.m. PST |
Should have been shot !! Russ Dunaway |
| CeruLucifus | 07 Aug 2022 2:34 p.m. PST |
What a foolish deluded person. |
 deadhead | 08 Aug 2022 1:02 p.m. PST |
A great find though and well worth posting. I had never heard of this chap's story. I do wonder if he would have got off so lightly if a UK/Commonwealth service man. I suspect a "suspended sentence" would have been more likely for what was clearly high treason. A civilian aiding an enemy power is bad enough, but a member of the armed forces………….? |
| Nine pound round | 08 Aug 2022 1:50 p.m. PST |
The closest analogous Commonwealth case I can think of would be Norman Baillie-Stewart, but he had been cashiered long before he went over to the Germans (and took their citizenship, which probably saved his life), and he didn't take a plane with him. It's amazing to me that he thought this was worth doing so late in the war. |
| Dn Jackson | 09 Aug 2022 3:06 a.m. PST |
There are nutters in every society. After all, people defected to the Soviet Union and Cuba. |
