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mozz ,
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William Faulkner has some wonderful stories about the WW1 days when people would go up in these rickety planes with a handgun, and take potshots with it with one hand while they flew the plane with the other, or take up a big basket of hand grenades and be lobbing them down at people on the ground while the people on the ground were shooting at them with infantry weapons.

Pilots in war have always been nuts, but there's levels of nuts.

PugJesus OP ,

I love seeing pictures of WW1 infantry preparing to let loose an anti-aircraft volley from their bolt-action rifles. What a wild time of military developments

mozz ,
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Somewhere there is a Vietnam book where an American pilot told a story about "One-Shot Charlie". There was an old Vietnamese man in some village who had some kind of ancient rifle, and every time they were flying nearby, he'd come out of his house and fire a single shot at the aircraft going past him half a mile up or whatever, and then go back inside. Just kind of a "I hate the fuck out of you but all I have is this rifle but fuck yes I will do my part."

They loved him. They never tried to attack him and I think would have been legitimately angry if someone had tried to hurt him. When you are in war you find your moments of safety and humor where you can.

tal ,
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Flight of the Intruder opens with an A-6 bombadier being hit and killed by a round from a bolt-action rifle at low altitude.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPofeRImxv8

kersploosh ,
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No gun, no problem. If you are wearing shoes you always have options.

George W. Bush dodging a show thrown at him during a press conference

PugJesus OP ,

Not with those lightning fast shrub reflexes!

mozz ,
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W was a piece of shit in many many ways, but you can't deny his humanity in that moment. Dude handled it like a champ and couldn't wait for whatever was coming after the second shoe. You could tell that was his favorite thing that ever happened in a press conference.

kersploosh ,
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W must have slept in a Holiday Inn Express the night before.

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