"They were 75 feet off the ground. You could see the Japanese pilots' faces clearly," he told an interviewer. "We grabbed our M-1 rifles and our redesigned steel helmets we had just been issued, a couple of .30 caliber machine guns and ran outside … We started firing at the planes. Whether we knocked an enemy plane down, nobody knows."
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