Short Final: A Vote of No-Confidence

After the engine cut out, a Dauntless returning to USS Yorktown began to fly erratically and lose altitude until the pilot was able to restart it. The pilot called to his gunner: "I bet 50 percent of the people down there thought we were going to crash."


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