When writing a script I like to be as accurate as I can be, both historically or otherwise. The script I'm writing at the moment has a scene in it (which takes place during the near end of world war 2) in which a British fighter pilot collides with an enemy plane, causing them both to eject and land safely over an area in Peru where the Andes mountains meets the Amazonian rainforest.
What I really need to know is:
1. Is there an event during the war in which a US cargo plane would have been flying over this area (imagine a shipment from Argentina or Chile to New York).
2. Would it have been possible that British fighter pilots could have been escorting said cargo.
3. If it would have been attacked, which of the enemy countries would have been most likely to engage in the attack (I was on the fence between Japan and Germany).
Any helpful contributions would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you.
I'm afraid there's no historical basis for such a scene. No Axis aircraft could reach South America; the only thing that might have put an enemy aircraft within a thousand miles of Peru was [the Japanese plan to attack the Panama canal with submarine-based aircraft] (http://www.historynet.com/japans-panama-canal-buster.htm). If such as attack had transpired there might have been an encounter with the USAAF but the RAF never operated over the continent, there was no reason for them to.