Shot Down a Jap Zero With a 1911

[hodgepodge]

The only pilot credited with downing an enemy aircraft with a 1911.

http://controversialtimes.com/milit...anese-plane-while-parachuting/?utm_source=GSL

 

[gre24ene]

Definitely the greatest generation. I have always held the men of this time in the highest regard.

 

[SgtKope]

9mm vs. 45???


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[Ranchero50]

The Fieseler Storch was the last dogfight victim of the western front. Pilot Duanes Francies and his observer, Lieutenant William Martin, of the 5th US Army Division, spotted a Storch circling below them while looking for ground targets in their Piper Cub. Diving on the Storch, the two men opened fire with their Colt .45s and the plane spiraled to the ground. After a short gun battle, Francies and his observer took the two Germans into custody. Lt. Martin was awarded the Air Medal for his part in the fight, but Francies would have to wait until the story was reported in Cornelius Ryan's book "The Last Battle," to finally be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The USAF was 22 years late. Apart from being the last Luftwaffe plane lost in the west, this Storch was also the only enemy plane downed by pistol fire during the war.

 

[Alan3413]

9mm vs. 45???


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Still debatable. But it's settled between 20mm vs .45

 

[lowoncash]

Side note, France used the Winchester 1907 .351 self loading as an air to air weapon in the world war numbered 1.

 

[zoostation]

The planes were made of aluminum and the men were made of steel!


On a side note, I hope the local gun control fat ladies (hi girls

) from Mom's Desperate for Attention don't read this. Then they'll want to ban the .45 caliber pistol. "The gun that can shoot down planes!!"

 

[mawkie]

Side note, France used the Winchester 1907 .351 self loading as an air to air weapon in the world war numbered 1.

The Webley MkI Royal Horse Artillery pistol with shoulder stock was used early in WW1 air-to-air combat before Anthony Fokker changed everything with his synchronizer.