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  Speaker 1: One night in nineteen forty four, an American military pilot
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  Speaker 1: was flying over England when he turned around in his
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  Speaker 1: cockpit and looked at this panel of switches that was
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  Speaker 1: right behind him, And after looking for a particular switch,
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  Speaker 1: he reached out and he was about to toggle it,
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  Speaker 1: but he stopped because he knew what he was about
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  Speaker 1: to do. Flipping the switch would easily be the most
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  Speaker 1: dangerous thing he had ever done in his entire life,
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  Speaker 1: but this was his duty. He had to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and so, after taking a deep breath, he flipped the
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  Speaker 1: switch and immediately chaos ensued and the course of American
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  Speaker 1: history would be drastically changed forever. If you've never heard
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  Speaker 1: At around five thirty pm on the evening of August twelfth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty four, a young American military pilot named Joe
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  Speaker 1: walked out of his quarters on his base in England
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  Speaker 1: where he was stationed. As soon as he was outside,
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  Speaker 1: he lit a cigarette to calmas nerves, and as he
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  Speaker 1: smoked the cigarette, he began walking towards the huge hangar
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of the base, where his plane
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  Speaker 1: was waiting for him. Joe had been preparing for this
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  Speaker 1: night for weeks. He and his co pilot, a thirty
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  Speaker 1: five year old lieutenant who was nicknamed Bud, were about
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  Speaker 1: to step off on a top secret military mission called
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  Speaker 1: Operation Aphrodite. And this mission was not only top secret,
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  Speaker 1: but it was so unbelievably dangerous that basically anybody who
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  Speaker 1: knew about it considered it a suicide mission. But Joe
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  Speaker 1: tried not to think about that as he walked towards
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  Speaker 1: the hangar. Instead, he tried to think about the reason
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  Speaker 1: he was here in the first place, the reason he
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  Speaker 1: had joined the military, and that was to defeat the Nazis.
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  Speaker 1: And what he and his co pilot were about to do,
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  Speaker 1: Operation Aphrodite was going to play a huge role in
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  Speaker 1: defeating the Nazis. So this was about five years into
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  Speaker 1: World War Two, and at this point the Nazis were
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  Speaker 1: actually losing. However, it was making them more dangerous, not less,
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  Speaker 1: because they were becoming very, very desperate, and so they
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  Speaker 1: were launching all these outrageous attacks basically because they had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to lose. And one horrible thing the Nazis were
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  Speaker 1: doing at this time were dropping these things called vengeance weapons.
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  Speaker 2: Hitler called them vengeance weapons.
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  Speaker 1: They were basically these huge bombs that the Nazis would
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  Speaker 1: drop arbitrarily across the United Kingdom on major population centers,
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  Speaker 1: and by this point in the war, these vengeance weapons
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  Speaker 1: had killed over five thousand civilians.
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  Speaker 2: And at this exact moment, like this.
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  Speaker 1: Night, as Joe was walking towards the Hangar, the Nazis
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  Speaker 1: had a stash of vengeance weapons aimed directly at London.
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  Speaker 2: That was going to be their next target.
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  Speaker 1: And so the mission that Joe and his copilot Bod
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  Speaker 1: were going on, Operation Aphrodite, was going to be to
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  Speaker 1: go out and destroy those vengeance weapons to save London.
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  Speaker 1: And as nervous as Joe was about this mission, and
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  Speaker 1: he was really nervous, he was also very excited he
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  Speaker 1: actually had volunteered for this mission when many other pilots
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  Speaker 1: had done everything they could to stay away from this mission.
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  Speaker 2: And on top of that, Joe actually.
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  Speaker 1: Had flown enough missions by this point in the war
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  Speaker 1: that he didn't need to fly anymore. He could just
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  Speaker 1: go home, but instead he volunteered for this mission. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason why Joe might have decided to do that
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  Speaker 1: has a lot to do with the family he was
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  Speaker 1: raised in. So Joe came from a family that was
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  Speaker 1: very successful and accomplished, and his father really pushed Joe
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  Speaker 1: and his younger brother to be the very best at
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  Speaker 1: whatever they were doing and to be very competitive with
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  Speaker 1: each other. And so while Joe and his younger brother
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  Speaker 1: did love each other, they also had a pretty intense rivalry.
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  Speaker 1: For a while, Joe's father obviously favored Joe. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Joe was the favorite child, and his father would always say,
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  Speaker 1: Joe's going to be the president someday, He's so talented.
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  Speaker 1: But after the attack on Pearl Harbor, that brought the
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  Speaker 1: United States into World War Two. Both Joe and his
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  Speaker 1: younger brother joined the military, and pretty early on in
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  Speaker 1: the war, Joe's younger brother got an award for heroism.
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  Speaker 1: He had basically saved his platoon of men, and he
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  Speaker 1: won all these awards and he was all over the news.
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  Speaker 1: And pretty quickly after that, Joe felt like he fell
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  Speaker 1: out of favor with his dad, that his dad kind
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  Speaker 1: of looked at the younger brother as being the favorite
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  Speaker 1: child now, and so Joe really started to feel insecure
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  Speaker 1: and wanted to prove himself.
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  Speaker 2: Really to his dad.
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  Speaker 1: And so when Operation Aphrodite came up, Joe volunteered for it,
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  Speaker 1: really because he wanted to be a hero. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: to show his dad that he too could do something
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  Speaker 1: huge and change the course of history. And he would
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  Speaker 1: change the course of history, but not in the way
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  Speaker 1: he expected. And so Joe continued to smoke a cigarette
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  Speaker 1: and hustled across the base towards the hangar, and as
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  Speaker 1: he did, he found himself kind of speeding up, like
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  Speaker 1: he just wanted to get over there and get started.
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  Speaker 1: Joe's commanders had given him a special code he would
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  Speaker 1: call out over the radio if this mission was successful.
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  Speaker 1: It was spade flush, That's what he'd say over the radio.
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  Speaker 1: And so as Joe hustled towards the hangar, he imagined
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  Speaker 1: how incredible it was going to be to yell out
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  Speaker 1: spade flush over the radio. I mean, it was only
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  Speaker 1: like thirty minutes away from that moment. This was a
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  Speaker 1: short mission. And so finally Joe reached the hangar and
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  Speaker 1: he looked up to the sky one more time to
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  Speaker 1: make sure the weather looked solid, because actually they had
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  Speaker 1: tried to launch Operation Aphrodite a couple of days earlier,
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  Speaker 1: but it had been canceled because of fog. But Joe
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  Speaker 1: looked around and the weather looked good, and so he
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  Speaker 1: knew it was going to be a go. So he
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  Speaker 1: flipped a cigarette butt and stepped into the hangar. Inside
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  Speaker 1: this hangar was this massive, big open space, and in
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  Speaker 1: the center of the hangar on the floor was this
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  Speaker 1: huge plane called a B twenty four Liberator. This was,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Joe's plane for the night, and so Joe
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  Speaker 1: immediately began walking towards the plane to check it out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this particular type of plane was the type of plane
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  Speaker 1: Joe had been flying for the past three years. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he'd flown many combat missions in this type of aircraft,
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  Speaker 1: so he was very familiar with it. But this particular
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  Speaker 1: B twenty four was unlike any of the other B
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  Speaker 1: twenty four's Joe had ever flown. In fact, this aircraft
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  Speaker 1: was so unique it was unlike any aircraft that any
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  Speaker 1: pilot in the American military had ever flown.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this was really a one of one.
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  Speaker 1: And so as Joe walked around the outside of this plane,
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  Speaker 1: he began to notice some of these unique modifications that
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  Speaker 1: the mechanics had made to this aircraft. The most noticeable
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  Speaker 1: modification was actually the cockpit. Now, normally the cockpit had
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  Speaker 1: all these windows basically all around it, so the pilot
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  Speaker 1: could look in any direction and see what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously they needed to be protected from the elements.
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  Speaker 2: But this BE twenty four had.
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  Speaker 1: All the glass removed except for one pane of glass
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  Speaker 1: basically right in front of where Joe would be staring,
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  Speaker 1: just like a single windshield. And so it's almost like
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  Speaker 1: it was a convertible aircraft where it was all open
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  Speaker 1: air in the cockpit. And the reason of this change
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  Speaker 1: is because Joe and his co pilot during the course
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  Speaker 1: of this top secret mission, Operation Aphrodite, they would have
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  Speaker 1: to jump out and parachute to the ground, and so
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  Speaker 1: by having this all open, it would allow them to
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  Speaker 1: do that much easier. And then another big modification to
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  Speaker 1: the B twenty four is the guns that were normally
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  Speaker 1: located on the outside of the aircraft were gone, and
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  Speaker 1: they were replaced by broomsticks painted black to look like
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  Speaker 1: guns at a distance. But the visible changes to this
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  Speaker 1: particular B twenty four were nothing compared to the massive
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  Speaker 1: changes that were hidden inside this aircraft, because the top
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  Speaker 1: secret part of Operation Aphrodite was really this particular plane.
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  Speaker 1: The plane was not really a plane. It was more
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  Speaker 1: like a huge flying bomb. The military's mechanics basically hollowed
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  Speaker 1: out the entirety of this plane, removed everything inside of
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  Speaker 1: it that was not absolutely vital, and they replaced it
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  Speaker 1: with explosives. Ten tons of explosives like this is an
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable amount of explos A few minutes later, at around
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  Speaker 1: five point fifty five PM, Joe and his co pilot Bud,
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  Speaker 1: who by this point had come into the hangar, finished
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  Speaker 1: doing their exterior inspection of the aircraft, and then they
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  Speaker 1: climbed into the cockpit, with Joe taking a seat in
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  Speaker 1: the pilot's seat and Bud sitting in the co pilot seat,
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  Speaker 1: and even though the evening was cool, both men were
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  Speaker 1: visibly sweating. Once the pilots got the go ahead to
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  Speaker 1: begin the mission, Joe fired the first engine and then
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  Speaker 1: turned to look at the ground crew all around them,
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  Speaker 1: and he noticed all of them looked really, really serious.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they obviously knew how intensely dangerous this mission
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  Speaker 1: really was, and the fact was, you know, the pilots
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  Speaker 1: might not make it home, and so they're looking up
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  Speaker 1: at these.
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  Speaker 2: Guys like I'm sorry, you have to do this.
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  Speaker 1: But Joe, you know, he looked out at these people
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  Speaker 1: and he sensed that was going on, and so he
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  Speaker 1: made a big show to wave and smile at them,
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  Speaker 1: to show confidence like he knew what he was going
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be fine. But in reality, Joe really
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  Speaker 2: was terrified.
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  Speaker 1: all four propellers spinning on the aircraft, and so he
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  Speaker 1: released the break and began taxiing out to the runway.
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  Speaker 1: And as they bumped along, Joe and Bud became really
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  Speaker 1: aware of just how heavy this aircraft was from all
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  Speaker 1: the explosives. I mean, every bump, this plane is lurching
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  Speaker 1: up and down and really creaking and making lots of noises.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this was sketchy.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, Joe went full speed ahead and he and Joe
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  Speaker 1: went tearing down the runway and at some point the
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  Speaker 1: plane did get lift and it took off into the air,
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  Speaker 1: and then just up ahead of him were six other
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  Speaker 1: planes that had just taken off moments before, who were
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  Speaker 1: going to escort Joe and Bud to their target area.
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  Speaker 1: Once Joe got the plane to its cruising altitude, he
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  Speaker 1: and Bud kind of relaxed for a second and began
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  Speaker 1: preparing themselves for what was going to happen next. They
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  Speaker 1: had about fifteen minutes of just kind of casual flying
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  Speaker 1: before the real work of this mission began. The vengeance
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  Speaker 1: weapons that Joe and Bud were going out to destroy
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  Speaker 1: as part of Operation Aphrodity were located about one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty miles south just outside of this little town
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  Speaker 1: in the very northern tip of France. But destroying these
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  Speaker 1: weapons would not be as simple as just Joe and
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  Speaker 1: Bud flying away were top and releasing all their explosives
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  Speaker 1: and flying back home. Because the Nazis had buried these
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  Speaker 1: vengeance weapons deep inside the hills in this town in
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  Speaker 1: northern France, and so regular bombs wouldn't touch these vengeance weapons.
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  Speaker 1: They had to do it a different way, and the
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  Speaker 1: way they were going to do it was Joe and
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  Speaker 1: Bud were going.
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  Speaker 2: To fly their plane directly into the hills.
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  Speaker 1: And the way they would do this is they would
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  Speaker 1: fly their plane as close to the target area as possible,
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  Speaker 1: at which point one of the other pilots that were
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  Speaker 1: in the escort planes would take remote control of the
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  Speaker 1: B twenty four flying bomb. And then once they had
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  Speaker 1: remote control, Joe and Bud, who no longer needed to
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  Speaker 1: do anything, they would jump out and parachute to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and then the pilot who was remotely flying this now
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  Speaker 1: vacant B twenty four flying bomb, they would just set
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  Speaker 1: it on autopilot to crash into the hills. At around
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  Speaker 1: six fifteen PM, just as the English channel came into view,
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  Speaker 1: Joe toggled a switch on his control panel, and then
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  Speaker 1: after he did, he and Bud kind of held their
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  Speaker 1: breath for a second to see what would happen, and
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  Speaker 1: then a couple of seconds Sleigh the plane kind of
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  Speaker 1: shuddered for a second and then leveled out. And then
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  Speaker 1: a call came over the radio from one of the
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  Speaker 1: pilots who were in the escort planes telling Joe and
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  Speaker 1: Bud that they had just successfully taken remote control of
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  Speaker 1: the B twenty four. So at this point, Joe and
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  Speaker 1: Bud are no longer flying the aircraft.
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  Speaker 2: They're just sitting inside of this flying bomb.
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  Speaker 1: Now there were only two things left for Joe and
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  Speaker 1: Bud to do before they could bail out to safety.
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  Speaker 1: They would need to arm the plane, so basically arm
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  Speaker 1: the explosives and make them ready to detonate. And then
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  Speaker 1: after that was done, they would need to call out
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  Speaker 1: over the radio Spade flush, the code Joe was given,
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  Speaker 1: which would signal to everybody else that the plane was
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  Speaker 1: ready and Joe and Bud were jumping out.
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  Speaker 2: And so once Joe and Bud nodded.
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  Speaker 1: To each other and kind of acknowledged that, okay, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do the last bit of this mission, Joe
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  Speaker 1: turned around in a seat and he looked at this
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  Speaker 1: control panel that was right behind him, and on this
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  Speaker 1: panel was the arming switch.
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  Speaker 2: And so once Joe flipped this, he and Bud would
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  Speaker 2: have a.
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  Speaker 1: Very short window of time to safely escape the aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was kind of like, you know, flip it,
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  Speaker 1: make the radio call, and get the heck out of there.
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  Speaker 1: But Joe and Bud had trained for this moment over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over again, so they were ready. And
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  Speaker 1: so eventually Joe flipped the switch, grabbed this radio and
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  Speaker 1: called out spade flush. What Joe and Bud could not
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  Speaker 1: have known when the mechanics were making all these modifications
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  Speaker 1: to the speed twenty four was that one of the
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  Speaker 1: mechanics accidentally crossed some wires in putting in all these explosives,
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  Speaker 1: and so just seconds after Joe had armed the explosives,
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  Speaker 1: they detonated. They were not supposed to, but they did,
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  Speaker 1: and so Joe and Bud were killed basically a fraction
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  Speaker 1: of a second after calling.
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  Speaker 2: Out Spade Flush.
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  Speaker 1: But it would turn out the catastrophic failure of Operation
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  Speaker 1: Aphrodite had no impact on World War Two. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: Operation Aphrodite should never have happened in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: It was totally unnecessary. What Joe and Bud and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the American military didn't know at the time
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  Speaker 1: was five weeks earlier, the British Royal Air Force dropped
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of ground penetrating bombs all across those
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  Speaker 1: hills in northern France, and they destroyed all of the
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  Speaker 1: vengeance weapons. So when Joe and Bud took off on
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  Speaker 1: this doomed mission, there was no threat to London none.
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  Speaker 1: But that is not the big reveal in this story,
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  Speaker 1: because Operation Aphrodite changed the course of American history in
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  Speaker 1: a really specific and really enormous way. Because Joe, whose
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  Speaker 1: full name was Joseph P. Kennedy Junior, was a member
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  Speaker 1: of the very famous Kennedy family, a big time political
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  Speaker 1: family in America, and at the time, the Kennedys were
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  Speaker 1: all saying, Joseph is going to be the next president
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  Speaker 1: of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody believed it. He was going to be the guy.
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  Speaker 1: But then, of course, Operation Aphrodite changed all of that
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  Speaker 1: because Joseph was killed and so the war would end
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  Speaker 1: about a year later. And when it did, Joseph's younger brother,
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  Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy, who won that award for heroism and
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  Speaker 1: got a purple heart early on in the war, and
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  Speaker 1: he kind of became a war hero, which prompted Joe
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  Speaker 1: to volunteer year for Operation Aphrodite. Yet John would begin
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  Speaker 1: his unbelievable political rise, and by nineteen sixty John F.
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy JFK would become the thirty fifth President of the
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  Speaker 1: United States, even though he wasn't supposed to. He was
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  Speaker 1: the second choice it should have been Joe. As I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, I am now going to go live on
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  Speaker 1: YouTube to discuss further our big announcement our graphic novel.
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  Speaker 1: All you have to do to join this live event
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  Speaker 1: is click on the live tab on my YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 1: During this event, I will cover a personal story from
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  Speaker 1: my time in the Navy. I'll also chat with a
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  Speaker 1: few special guests that helped make this book a reality.
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  Speaker 1: I'll share some more exclusive details about this book, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll answer any questions you.
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  Speaker 2: Might have about this book.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's it, so head on over now to the
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  Speaker 1: live section of my YouTube channel and we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming Mister Ballin Graphic novel.