Little Prince Author-Shot Down By German Pilot?


	Little Prince Author-Shot Down By German Pilot?

carrerinyes

3-17-2008 3:58 AM

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4-11-2008 3:26 AM

Aribeth

Clues to the Mystery of a Writer Pilot Who Disappeared
(New York Times/April 11, 2008)

4-11-2008 12:33 PM

carrerinyes

How kind of you to add this, Aribeth. I liked the photos in the NY Times piece. Seems it's no longer a mystery!
Thanks.

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                                        German pilot fears he killed writer Saint-Exupery                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080316/wl_nm/france_saintexupery_dc"><P>
                        PARIS (Reuters) - 
Horst Rippert, an 88-year old former
pilot of <SPAN id="lw_1205685676_0" class="yshortcuts">Germany</SPAN>'s Luftwaffe, has said in a forthcoming book
that he may have killed French writer and war pilot <SPAN id="lw_1205685676_1" class="yshortcuts">Antoine de
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                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080316/wl_nm/france_saintexupery_dc"><P>Saint-Exupery, who achieved worldwide fame with his
fairy-tale-like book "The Little Prince," died in mysterious
circumstances when his plane came down near Marseilles while on
a reconnaissance mission. His body has never been found.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080316/wl_nm/france_saintexupery_dc"><P>Extracts of the book "Saint-Exupery: The Final Secret" were
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