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🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Frank Luke, the balloon buster, was America's second highest scoring ace of World War One. |
0:10.6 | Now there were more than 200 aces with over 20 kills during Great War. |
0:14.4 | Out of that list there's only one American and that's Eddie Rickenbacker with 26. |
0:19.3 | Frank Luke, with 18 victories, didn't even make the top 200. |
0:23.8 | But Frank Luke was a better pilot than all of them. |
0:26.4 | When those that saw him flying, seasoned aces, chief among them Eddie Rickenbacker himself, |
0:31.1 | agreed that Luke was the best pilot and by far the best shot that they'd ever seen |
0:35.6 | and many of them said that they had no doubt whatsoever that in a one-on-one fight with |
0:40.4 | the Red Baron Manfred von Richthoff and Frank Luke would have made short work out of them. |
0:47.1 | Now he comes down to us as a mean spirited taciturn, heartless killing machine, a loner, |
0:54.2 | a braggart, an almost pure antithesis of grinning, charming, likable Eddie Rickenbacker. |
1:00.1 | It's virtually impossible to find a photo of Rickenbacker without that trademark smile, |
1:04.6 | and it's even more difficult to find one of Frank Luke, it doesn't look like he's |
1:08.2 | about to come over there and kick your ass. |
1:10.8 | The most famous picture ever taken of Luke, he's leaning against his sped 13 by plane. |
1:16.5 | He looks like a man that got dragged by his wife to a shopping mall in the middle of |
1:20.0 | watching a playoff game. |
1:21.8 | His eyes are serious, cruel even. |
1:24.0 | He looks exactly like a human bird of prey, which, of course, is what he was. |
1:28.1 | There are no pictures of a smiling balloon buster because by the time he was famous back |
1:32.6 | home in the States, Frank Luke was already dead. |
1:36.4 | But if you walk his life back for a little bit just a few months, you see a completely |
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