"Claim of a B24 crewmember of shooting down a zero with..." Topic

…a 45 pistol.

"You may or may not have already read my piece on the unarmed EF-111 Raven that scored a kill on an Iraqi Mirage during the opening hours of the aerial campaign of the Persian Gulf War. As improbable as an maneuver kill may sound, recently, I've lately come to the realization (after a good deal of research and reading) that there are even zanier stories of air-to-air combat throughout history, waiting for us to happen upon them and share them around. One that particularly comes to mind, more so than others, is the incredible story of how Owen J Baggett, a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber pilot, took out a Mitsubishi Zero. At a first glance, that doesn't seem too out of the ordinary, right? I mean there were plenty of bombers that shot down attacking enemy fighters, using the machine guns in turrets placed all over the body of the bombers. Factor in that Baggett was solely credited with the kill, not a gunner or the entire crew. That's when the real story starts to unravel…"
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Pity the crew had not been taught how to deal with fighters attacking parachutists (deflate the parachute by climbing the rigging lines); might have saved their lives.