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Great Daring Moments From History

Khalid Elhassan September 28, 2020 31 min

Josip Broz Tito - World War II — Yugoslav partisans wading across a river. Wikimedia

32. Daring, or Too Aggressive?

Emblem of the 354th Fighter Group. Cyber Modeler

Bruce Carr was not only denied credit for his first kill, his daring style of flying got him labeled as “overaggressive” by his superiors. So he was transferred to 353^rd Squadron, 354^th Fighter Group. It was his old squadron’s and fighter group’s loss.

Carr became one of the 354^th Fighter Group’s top aces, starting on June 14^th, 1944, when he was credited with a probable kill of a Me109 over Normandy, France. Three days later, on the 17^th, he shared a kill when he helped another pilot down an FW190. That August, Carr was commissioned a second lieutenant.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.