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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.
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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 · The gentleman from Wisconsin engendered at least as much discourse in death as in life. Everyone who ran into Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) that spring of 1957 had a vivid memory of how ill he was—jaundiced skin, unsteady balance, intermittent focus.
- Nancy Tappan
Feb 6, 1977 · A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Jud Taylor
- 1977-02-06
Tailgunner Joe, Tail Gunner Joe, Tail-Gunner Joe, and similar variants typically refer to Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957), Republican United States senator from Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957.
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...
