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Wore a Gorilla Suit Flying the P-59 Airacomet A jet fighter is not a common sight in today’s world, but in the middle of WW2 the sight of a gorilla flying a propellerless aircraft was a rare sight indeed. Come...
Landed his tiny plane with 7 people on a carrier The chaotic American withdrawal from Saigon after the Vietnam war led to a mass exodus of civilians who worked with the U.S. military during the war. With death or imprisonment...
Dr. Ruth Westheimer: Sex Therapist Sniper Her parents killed by Nazi Germany, 10 year old Dr. Ruth fled to Switzerland during WW2. Joining the IDF at age 17. Being only 4 foot 7 inches, she was placed as a sniper...
Veteran of 3 wars Fischer joined the Navy to enroll as a pilot when he was 18 in 1943 but the war ended before he saw any action. That all changed when the Korean War started and he was picked...
Valor is Back In 2009, Meyer was deployed to Iraq as a Marine Sniper. When his fellow Marines and Iraqi soldiers were ambushed, Meyer mounted a gun truck along with two other marines to rescue them. Under heavy fire and...
Hawaiian Medal of Honor recipient Known for quietly reading his Bible and writing letters home, Pililaau was nonetheless a fierce warrior and his actions on Heartbreak Ridge in Korea 1951 proved it beyond a doubt. Drafted, Pililaau thought about being...
