That was a great read!!!

Thanks a bunch for posting. Here you go.


"This is the story of the only pilot to ever take down an enemy aircraft with an M1911 pistol.
After Owen J. Baggett was born in 1920 in Graham, Texas, he would become another hardworking citizen and Hardin-Simmons University graduate, setting out to seek his fortune in the United States.

Not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, he, like most of the "Greatest Generation," enlisted in the U.S. military and joined the Army Air Corps in February 1942 to become part of the Second World War. Baguette became a second lieutenant in the U.S. 7th Bomb Group, and was stationed in Pandaveswar in then British India.

On March 31, 1943, he and his U.S. Airmen squadron were ordered to destroy a railroad bridge in Pyinmana, Burma and history was made."

Really cool story! Thanks for posting.

Pretty cool, but I wondered while I was reading it why the emphasis on the 1911? Were there other planes shot down with other pistol types?? Wouldn't they be just as remarkable??

Just me being anal, I love the 1911 - mine is one of my prized possessions. But I found it strange that they were making the 1911 into the big deal when I thought shooting the plane down with a pistol was the real story.

JR