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Tail Gunner Joe is a 1977 television movie dramatizing the life of U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican who claimed knowledge of communist infiltration of the U.S. government during the 1950s. The film was broadcast on NBC.
He volunteered to fly twelve combat missions as a gunner-observer. These missions were generally safe, and after one where he was allowed to shoot as much ammunition as he wanted to, mainly at coconut trees, he acquired the nickname "Tail-Gunner Joe".
Mar 17, 2020 · The two men then had a drink to celebrate the creation of “Tail-Gunner Joe.” All told, McCarthy made about a dozen flights in the tail-gunner’s seat. He strafed deserted airfields, hit some fuel dumps, and came under enemy fire at least once.
Jul 7, 2020 · Joe McCarthy was buried in St. Mary’s cemetery, at his favorite spot on a tree-lined bluff overlooking the Fox River. As a rifle squad of U.S. Marines and Catholic War Veterans members fired triple volleys, Jean stood at attention.
Jul 27, 2020 · McCarthy had been elected senator from Wisconsin in 1946, after switching his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican and running as a decorated Marine veteran with the nickname Tail Gunner...
Jul 19, 2020 · They made fun of the moniker he gave himself, Tail Gunner Joe. It turns out, from the handwritten notes in the files and from his comrades in the Marines, that he volunteered for dangerous...
Jul 17, 2020 · McCarthy anointed himself “Tail Gunner Joe” during his 1944 run for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin — casting himself as a World War II warrior who had fended off Japanese Zeros as his crew ...
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In 1944, McCarthy returned to Wisconsin on a thirty-day leave and ran against incumbent (currently serving) U.S. senator Alexander Wiley (1884–1967) in the Republican primary. "Tail-Gunner Joe," as McCarthy referred to himself, lost but won a great deal of name recognition.
Dwight D. Eisenhower said of McCarthy: "Never get in a pissing match with a skunk." A charismatic demagogue, Joe McCarthy grew up on a Wisconsin farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse. While still a teenager, he established a thriving business as a chicken farmer.
Yet, when he returned to campaign at home, he transformed himself into "tail-gunner Joe," the battle-scarred veteran who survived hazardous missions over Japanese-held territory and, in the process, "fired more bullets than any marine in history" during his fourteen (a figure he later changed to seventeen and then thirty-two) engagements with ...
