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No toes on Left foot and horrible burn damage to Olympic Athlete Walking two miles to their school house in 1917 in Kansas, Glenn and his brother started up the wood stove to heat the place. Unknowingly, someone had replaced...
10 Purple Hearts and Medal of Honor recipient When Charles Barger joined the U.S. army in 1918 to be a machine gunner, no one knew a humble orphan farmhand would turn out to be a national hero. With the end...
After WW2 started Mission Aviation Fellowship, flying bush planes worldwide. At a time when women were not supposed to fly airplanes, Betty Greene stands out as one of America’s greatest women pilots. She started flying at age 16 and signed...
Upgunned Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar It came recently to me that there was a WW2 aircraft I had never heard of: The Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon maritime patrol warbird. Sporting up to eight .50 cal machine guns, rockets, bombs and depth...
WW2 Leading Navy Ace: got 9 kills in one fight David McCampbell started out the war as a signaling officer on the USS Wasp, a carrier that was later sunk by a Japanese sub while he was aboard. Later posted...
Became famous as “The Nighthawks” 21 kills in a Mosquito When WW2 started, Arthur was already working in the Wesleyan church and was a conscientious objector. He later changed his mind and joined the RAF becoming a night fighter pilot....
