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From: levine@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Leonard P Levine)
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Subject: Re: Tail Gunner Joe
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Date: 10 Sep 90 16:50:40 GMT
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 From article <11943@accuvax.nwu.edu>, by telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (A Friend):

> [Moderator's Note: Who is this Tailgunner Joe person? I've seen a
> couple messages about him in news.admin but haven't paid attention.
> Will someone please explain it further?   PAT]

Just for the record, tailgunner joe was Senator Joe McCarthy of
Wisconsin who was known for his distortion of the facts in the '50s.

He was in the air force during the war and was reputed to have shot
off the tail of his own plane.  His enemies gave him that name from
that story.


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