Talk:Robert C. Richardson III

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Just a comment: I read in the article that he clearly saw four U-boats with red cross flags actually rescueing survivors... and still he gave the order to attack. I know that considering the geneva convention it's not a war crime to attack an enemy military vessel, but if one of the U-boats is crowded with hundreds of civilians, you must be pretty cold to start bombing it. And since he was in a bomber, the U-boat was no real treat to him. So the order of Karl Donitz not to rescue survivors anymore is pretty solid. Ironically, he spend 10 years in prison for that... Makes much sense.

Actually Richardson was on the ground in a control tower, not in a bomber or even near the scene. .--Jackyd101 00:54, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

So? Hitler wasn't in the gas chambers either. If this was doen by teh Germans, we'd still harp on about it. Disgraceful action which should be held to account one day.

[edit] Revisionist scum

It was a war crime clear as a bell. The fact that it wasn't prosecuted as a war crime is another criminal offence. A certain callow type keeps rewriting the war crimes of the english and americans out of existence, perverting history. These grubby individuals should be banned from Wikipedia as they can't differenciate between propaganda and fact. Maybe they work for Bush, maybe they just have a tiny cock, maybe both, in any case this incident was a clearly documented war crime and atrocity. Some clown wannabe coastguard reservist shouldn't be allowed to pervert history to suit his revisionist tendencies.

it was not a war crime since US won the war. So easy it can be...--Yikrazuul 11:45, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I have removed the charges of Richardson being a war criminal because they were not cited and verified. patsw (talk) 12:03, 7 May 2008 (UTC)