Originally Posted by
hunterboy
Could someone explain why you would take your name off your flightsuit if you are going to disclose your name/rank and serial number anyway if captured?
Besides limiting your exposure, it is important to note that the first folks you meet on the ground may not give you a warm welcome...plenty of stories about aircrew literally being met with pitchforks on the ground by the locals and expecting the worse until officials arrived on scene. Something about folks not liking being bombed...
Even Gary Powers after being shot down in his "weather research" U-2 feared the locals would finish him off.