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Based on my experience, I'm guessing some irate lady's freshly waxed kitchen floor.

Here is some more. Some of these look almost deadly. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/22ucRqvovtE

By the way, not only was Sgt Schultz a real WW1 German soldier who carried the very rifle he had brought with him when he emigrated to the USA in the early 20's, but Lebeau was held in a German concentration camp in WW2. Schultz, John Bruner, worked in intelligence in WW2, helping with...

Several years back they were planning a sort of a sequel to HH. It was going to be about the sons and daughters of the Heros, at home after the war in the USA. But I guess it was kind of hard to develop stories with that thin of a plot line.

I have already told y'all the story a friend of mine, a Polish POW related to me. One of the Polish officers captured in his camp spoke very good German. The Germans asked him why and he replied that he had to learn the language so he could attend the Mercedes Benze factory mechanics' training...

It appears that the practice of using booby traps to deal with porch pirates has been developed to a new level. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HGFI-u7ORaI

Well, I was not aware of them giving away copyrighted materials unless the copyright owner had approved it. But I do not know.

AT: Squadron Signal [ Aircraft In Action] 1043 P 39 Airacobra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

"Heroes of Coastal Command" by Andrew D. Bird

Interesting thing was that when Halsey sent the strike force after the fleeing (and nearly empty) IJN carriers they included bomb laden Hellcats attacking the enemy carriers.

A guy I went to college with in the early 1970's had been a USAF enlisted man. He said his F-4E unit deployed to Vietnam and almost immediately after arriving were tasked with a ground support mission. He said that when they fired their M-61's you could count how many bursts they fired because...

It was the USN who evaluated it. Reportedly they rejected it on the basis that it fired too fast.

The 5 inch HVAR saw little use in the ETO. It was a USN development, inspired by RAF air-launched rockets, and the Navy agreed to provide a batch of them for use on P-47's, which went into action soon after 6 Jun 1944. One writer said they must have not been very effective in the anti-tank...

From Flight Journal. Nice Job!