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The US pilot who shot and killed a Japanese pilot mid fall with his pistol, 1943 Despite what you think, this is a real story and it is even more unbelievable and badass than you think. Owen J Baggett was a US pilot, who was flying a B-24 bomber to destroy a bridge in Burma, however his plane and squadron was attacked by at least 13  Japanese Ki-43 Hayabusa fighter planes and a fight in the sky took Place Bagget's B-24 was heavily damaged due to it's big size and slower speeds. The fuel tank of the B-24 was shot and the aircraft went on fire.... Read story  Bagget and his crew just jumped out with a few mere seconds to spare before the B-24 blew up. Little did he know, Bagget would make history in just a few minutes.  While falling in the air, Baggett deployed his parachute. Roughed up and parachuting through an aerial battle, Baggett continued his decent through the fight but remembered a disturbing fact. Japanese planes had a tendency to shoot or crash into US pilots pa...

Generalfeldmarschall Paulus, after the surrender at Stalingrad, 2 February 1943. The Commander of the German 6.lth Army. The commander in chief of the 10th Army, of which Paulus was chief of the general staff now, was General der Artillerie Walther von Reichenau. He was an aggressive, but a very skilled commander. He preferred to be with his troops in the field. Paulus, on the other hand, preferred to sit at a desk and ensure that all administrative matters were in order. Together they complemented each other well and formed a perfect combination that made the army very efficient. Without much difficulty, the 10th Army advanced through Poland. It was reclassified shortly after the campaign as the 6th Army. Shortly afterwards, the army was transported west for the campaign against Belgium and France. Paulus was one of the first officers to become involved in the planning for the invasion of the Soviet Operation Barbarossa that started on 22 June 1941. Paulus now became calmer since no o...