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Saves Family from Burning House On his way to work on Feb. 1, 2022, Ryan saw children running out of a house on fire in James Town, Wyoming. Racing over to the house he heard a child say that his...
22 Kills With No Legs After surviving an airplane crash in 1931 which took both of his legs, Douglas Bader went on to become one of Britain's highest scoring fighter Aces. Climbing into his Supermarine Spitfire with two metal legs,...
Shot down 9 planes as a gunner, 14 more as a pilot Captain Libby was a cowboy in Colorado before the start of World War I. In 1914 he joined the Canadian Air Force and on his first day as...
Shot down 9 Zeros in one day Before WW2 Benko was a firearms expert and often loaded his own ammo. Being assigned a top gunner on a B-24 named “the Goon”, he carefully unloaded the tracer bullets after he found...
Real American Hero: Used his F-86 jet as an air to air tow truck Brig. General James Risner could be the quintessential American fighter pilot of the century. After flying P-40s, P-39 Airacobras, and P-38 Lightnings during WW2, he enlisted...
First bomber gun kill since Korean War While serving as the tail gunner on a B-52 bomber on a mission over Hanoi, North Vietnam, Turner sighted a pair of Mig-21’s closing on the bomber from behind. As the lead Mig...
