Badassery
This of course is the perfect place to ask if the ever got over Macho Grande....🤣
Seriously cool story.
That’s why the Japanese version of High Flight never got written. “...reached out my hand and touched the face of....THWAP!!!”
A pair Cajun enlisted pilots flying an L-4 (a militarized Piper Cub) shot down a Fiesler Fi-156 Storch (a similar type of aircraft) with their .45s. It was one of the last aircraft downed in the ETO.
https://warontherocks.com/2017/12/when-the-piper-cub-roamed-the-battlefield/
Loved George C. Scott in his portrayal of Lt Gen Patton in “The Movie Patton” when he stands in the middle of the road and fires at a Focke Wulf Fighter Plane as it strafed the road with bullets on both sides of the road and him firing his pistol at the plane in sheer defiance and an inspirational leadership moment during the movie.
Pilots i
N the AF always dreaded getting hit with the “Golden BB”.
Warsaw Pact troops were taught to just fire anything they had up at any attacking aircraft.