World War Wings

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

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