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General Douglas MacArthur prefers to watch, not duck, when enemy planes attack. It was so at Corregidor; it was so last week at Leyte. A .50-caliber bullet from a Jap strafing plane pierced the wall of his command post building, passed within a foot of his head...
Said MacArthur, eying the bullet hole: "Well...
...according to Hale, K-8 is the first to compensate for all the factors that deflect a bullet in air combat...
...turret gunner in a bomber must consider a complex of factors - the speed and altitude of his own plane, the angle and speed of his target, range, bullet speed...
Without warning or signal, the executioners fired:-two volleys. The six bodies slumped. Maquis officers ran toward the stakes, fired a revolver bullet into each head. Within a minute after the coup de grâce, the hands had been cut free, the bodies lay prone...