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Air Combat at 20 Feet Due to a need for longer range planes to attack shipping in the South Pacific during WW2, several B-25 Mitchells were upgunned with extra machine guns (several sporting a 75mm howitzer cannon) by eliminating the...
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103 Kills as a teenager in Vietnam Upon his death in February this year, not much was known about this humble, quiet super sniper of the United States Marine Corps. With 103 CONFIRMED kills in Vietnam, an additional 216 UNCONFIRMED...
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#3: The B-17 Gunship/Reconnaissance Fortress named “Ol’666” If you are enjoying the AppleTV+ series “Masters of the Air” here is another B-17 WW2 story of interest. Serial number 41-2666 known as “Lucy” to some and “Ol’666” to others, this B-17...
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#2: Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown: How a Bf-109 Saved a B-17 With “Masters of the Air'' playing on Apple TV+ right now, here’s another cool B-17 story. After a raid on Germany, Lt. Charlie Brown’s B-17 was severely damaged...
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Most decorated American Indian Soldier After being awarded a Silver Star and Purple Heart in 1944 for attacking a German machine gun nest with grenades and destroying it, Pascal’s next war was on the Korean peninsula. There he was awarded...
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Survived 2 Prison Camps, disease, shipwreck, Atomic Bombing Some men are hard to kill: enter Alistair Urquhart, stage left. After the capture of Singapore by the Japanese, Alistair was sent to Thailand as a slave to work on the railroad...