"It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war."
-Robin Olds
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Post by: njames89 on January 19, 2018, 05:51:55 am
George Frederick "Buzz" Beurling a.k.a. the Falcon of Malta
"The Jerries are probably better over-all pilots than the Italians, but they certainly let the Italians do their fighting for them when the going got tough. When we get around to adding the final score for this show I hope somebody thinks of that".
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Post by: Asheram on January 19, 2018, 07:42:53 am
Audie Murphy was alone and exposed to German fire from 3 sides, but his deadly fire killed dozens of Germans and caused their infantry attack to waiver.
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Post by: Bob_Ross on January 19, 2018, 11:39:54 pm
On the 8th of August 1918, near the town of Villers-Brettoneux, France, Whippet A344 known as Musical Box was about to become a legend. In command of the tank was Lieutenant C.B. Arnold. Musical Box took part in the big attack on August 8, 1918, overtook the slow Mk V's, routed a German Artillery Battery and on its own penetrated to the rear of the German lines. From this on the lonely Whippet, with it's bold crew of only three men, carried on a war of its own. It shot down retiring infantry, attacked horse and motor transport, and regularly terrorized the bewildered Boche.
Lt. Arnold pressed on regardless for several hours resulting in the dispersal of a large segment of a German infantry division, a transport column and even an observation balloon. The combat had caused the cans of petrol carried on Musical Box to be perforated leaking petrol dangerously into the tank so much so the crew were having to wear their respirators. Eventually, Muscial Box was crippled and set on fire by a direct hit from a German gun and the crew bailed out. The driver was shot but he and the machine gunner were captured. Lt. Arnold survived the war as a POW having inflicted a loss on the Germans far out of proportion to what could be expected.