It happened on a dark night off the coast of Normandy, France, in June of 1944. Claude Pike stood strapped to a 20 mm anti-aircraft gun on the bow of his naval ship.“I could see the German plane in my gunsight,” he said, “but I couldn’t do anything. I was out of rounds.” Pike’s magazine loader had laid down, hiding from incoming fire.“I could see the blue tracers on every bullet,” he said, “so close I could reach out [...]
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