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Master Don Juan
My grandpa was in communication between WW2 and Korea. Basically, when the coms got knocked out in battle, these guys would wear a backpack with a big spool of wire on it, and run between command posts to re-establish coms. Their battlefield life expectancy was only a few minutes.
About the large caliber bullet in the neck, I agree that a direct hit would take off one's head, but I think it got slowed by going through the plane, and may have richocheted as well, further slowing it. He may have also been far away from the point where the bullet was fired. It went in the base of his neck on the side, and floated down near his rib cage.
That was his last military flight. He almost died from the mass dose of penicillin they gave in the hospital, but went on to be a commercial pilot after the war. He died at a ripe old age in 2002.
About the large caliber bullet in the neck, I agree that a direct hit would take off one's head, but I think it got slowed by going through the plane, and may have richocheted as well, further slowing it. He may have also been far away from the point where the bullet was fired. It went in the base of his neck on the side, and floated down near his rib cage.
That was his last military flight. He almost died from the mass dose of penicillin they gave in the hospital, but went on to be a commercial pilot after the war. He died at a ripe old age in 2002.