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Old 04-03-2020, 07:35 AM
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The book is even better. Left out of the movie is a Navy pilot that had gone to college for animal husbandry (wanted to be a dairy farmer in Wisconsin, if I remember right). He flew Dauntless and SBD2 diver bombers and was one of the first to fly Hellcats for ground attack. He wasn’t John Basillone, but he was pretty awesome.
Not sure who you are referring to but this guy is one of the WI hero’s I grew up hearing about.

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I think we need to take some advice from these tough sumb****s.

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