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The US pilot who shot and killed a Japanese pilot mid fall with his pistol, 1943

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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...