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Jackson’s arm has its own burial and headstone While doing research on Major General Smedly Butler, I came across an obscure reference to Stonewall Jackson’s left arm that had been amputated during the Civil War. Smedley was told by a...
Fastest man in history When Austrian badass Felix Baumgartner jumped from a Red Bull helium balloon 24 miles above the earth in 2012, he did not expect to become the world’s fastest man in unpowered flight. Taking months of psychological...
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...
