| As Ireland was neutral, any RAF (and Luftwaffe) members were suppossed to be interned for the duration of the war. In reality, a number of RAF crews who crashed in Ireland were quietly returned.
But Britain was very careful to instruct visiting airmen not to antagonise the Irish because (a)it was neutral and (b) there were just as many, if not more, anti-British Irish as there were pro.
Even when Irish airmen killed inaction, and whose bodies were returned to their families, were buried, and RAF representatives had to wear civilian clothes.
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