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JuzoItami t1_iqzbfy9 wrote

Reply to comment by Master-Collection488 in TIL that Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" aircraft had no front window due to fuel tank placement. The only forward vision was by a periscope. by p38-lightning

Yet he later worked to heal the damage wrought by the Nazis by spreading his love throughout postwar Germany.

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sanmigmike t1_ir06ro0 wrote

I’m guessing you mean the girlfriend and kids there?

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JuzoItami t1_ir0c0fe wrote

Well yeah sure, the girlfriend and her kids in Germany.

But also the two other girlfriends in Germany and their kids, too.

Three girlfriends in Germany, and seven kids: maybe he was trying to repopulate the Aryan race post WW2 all by himself.

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Psianth t1_ir0qv5l wrote

A rich white guy from a racist society who thinks he needs to repopulate the earth with more of himself? Why does that sound so familiar…

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ash_274 t1_ir0sthu wrote

He also downed several Japanese fighters as a civilian when he was sent to the Pacific theater to improve the fuel economy of American fighter planes. He was a bit of an expert on that subject, and he drastically improved the performance on the P-38 because the both the AAC and Hughes Aircraft didn’t fully utilize the engine’s and supercharger’s abilities

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