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Stranger Than Fiction

An incredible coincidence:

A German fighter ace has just learned that one of his 28 wartime ‘kills’ was his favourite author. Messerschmidt pilot Horst Rippert, 88, said he would have held his fire if he had known the man flying the Lightning fighter was renowned French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

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Posted on Mar 19 2008 @ 3:40pmAuthor Andrew SullivanCategories The Dish

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