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In a Lockheed NF-104 Starfighter (specially modified F-104), Smith accelerated to Mach 2.5 and then cut in the rocket motor attached to his fighter at 85,000 feet. His Starfighter zoomed up to 120,000 feet where he used the reaction motors...
Spent 8 Hours Evading Capture, Rescued by Air Force PJ’s After much success in Desert Storm’s bombing campaign, the F-117 stealth fighter seemed to be invulnerable to enemy fire. In a night mission in 1999, this was proven otherwise when...
Awarded the Medal of Honor for Heroically Saving Lives. On a bombing mission over France, Smith’s B-17 was hit by flack and badly shot up by German fighters. The middle section of the B-17 caught fire with exploding ammo going...
61 Bombs shot down, 7 in one night When his Hawker Tempest was hit by machine gun fire flying at 50 ft over Holland, he quickly radioed to his fellow fighters “Carry on, chaps. I’ve had it”. His Tempest rolled...
Saved his sister from the shrapnel of an airplane crash When Med Jet flight 056 took off from the Philadelphia airport on January 31, 2025 it suffered some kind of emergency which caused it to crash into a residential area....
Saved many lives by towing wounded on a raft in shark infested water When French’s ship the USS Gregory was sunk off the coast of Gadualcanal in 1942 by Japanese warships, many of the crew abandoned ship gravely wounded. French...
