The story of Owen J. Baggett, the B-24 Copilot who shot down a Japanese Zero with his Colt .45 while hanging from his open parachute after he bailed out from his stricken Liberator – The Aviation Geek Club
At just the right moment, Owen J. Baggett drew his service pistol, a Colt .45, and fired four shots, hitting the Japanese pilot in the head and causing the Zero to crash. Conceived in 1938 by Consolidated Aircraft, a Lockheed Martin legacy company, the original B-24 Liberator prototype was designed to fly faster and carry …