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He Bent His Gun Sight 2 Degrees… And Changed the Air War Over Germany.

In 1943, bomber crews over Europe were dying at catastrophic rates, and official doctrine wasn’t stopping it. One waist gunner from Dayton realized the problem wasn’t courage — it was the gun sight. So, in secret, he bent the center post forward by just two degrees and recalculated the math of deflection shooting. On April 17th, he destroyed a German fighter at nearly 800 yards — a distance considered impossible — and quietly shifted the margin of survival for the entire formation. His unauthorized modification would later influence the development of advanced computing gun sights, saving countless airmen without ever putting his name in the headlines. #military #aviation #warbird #fighterpilot #aircombat #ww2dogfight #vintageaircraft #militaryaircraft #aviationlegends #historicdogfights #aviationstorytelling #militaryaviation #aviationhistory #aircombatstories #fighterpilotstories #warbirddocumentary #dogfightstories #aircombathistory #legendaryaircraft #coldwaraviation #ww2aviation #militaryhistory