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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mates of the 365th "Hell Hawk" group of Thunderbolt pilots, 22-year-old Lieut. Edward Syszmanski is "The Mad Polack of Brooklyn," in recognition of his fanatic artistry at ground-level train-busting. The Syszmanski technique: "I come in from the back of a train, aiming at the third car from the engine. I watch the bullets creep up toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Train-Buster | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...advance of the Allied offensive, the 365th got orders to work out on railroads along the Rhine. The Mad Polack's record in three days of mediocre strafing weather: 13 locos blown up; four steam-spewers, one enemy tree branch captured (and brought home in his engine cowling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Train-Buster | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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