January 20th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
A Genuine Naked War Hero
This is no shit! Our naked dude was a crewman of a PBY (those were big-assed flying boats with a long range and a lot of machine guns) during WWII. They landed to pick a wounded guy out of the water, and so he shucked his clothes for the rescue swimming. By the time he got back in the plane, they were under fire. If you’ve ever seen a PBY (or any other flying boat) take off, it’s a painfully slow lumbering process, with no dodging allowed. So naturally enough, our man jumped back on his machine gun as soon as he could, not taking the time to put his pants on.
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This makes me feel so patriotic!
Ungh. It feels weird to fall in love with someone who’s an ISO/long dead by now…..But….Damn.
*OAP!
Dang autocorrect
“…our man jumped back on his machine gun as soon as he could, not taking the time to put his pants on”…and one of his crewmates just happened to have a camera handy and took a perfectly-focussed photo at just the right moment without concern for his own safety?
I think we’re seeing a re-enactment here.
Wee Jim, I did a bit of reading. There was a photographer embedded in the aircraft whose job it was to take pictures. So, yes, they really didn’t have time, but luckily they had someone on hand recording the action.
There was a pants free machine gunner on the USS Panay when the Japanese sank it in 1937.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pykoJwGG2is
about 4:10 in – don’t blink!
He actually made it uncensored into the newsreel, a bit surprising to me for the day.
I could swear I’ve seen a better picture of him somewhere…