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Loomis Birkhead

Loomis Birkhead in 1941.

Loomis Birkhead (born in 1909) was an American US Air Force Captain during World War II.

Biography[]

Birkhead was born in Glendale, California in 1909. He joined the US Air Force in 1929. On Saturday, December 13, 1941 During a press conference at Daugherty Field in Long Beach, Captain Birkhead, as General Stilwell's aide, met his old flame Donna Stratton, who was General Stilwell's new secretary. Aware that Donna was sexually aroused by airplanes, Birkhead lured her into the cockpit of a B-17 bomber to seduce her. When his amatory attempted fail, Donna punched him out; as he fell, Birkhead accidentally released a bomb, sending it rolling towards the podium just as the General promises, "There will be no bombs dropped here." The assembled reporters and audience paniced and scattered as the bomb striked the grandstand and exploded, though Stilwell and the crowd were unhurt.

Later that evening, General Stilwell attended a showing of the Walt Disney film Dumbo at a theater on Hollywood Boulevard. Determined to get Donna up in an airplane, Birkhead drove her to the 501st Bomb Disbursement Unit in Barstow, where the mentally unstable Colonel Warren "Mad Man" Maddox show them the unit's aircraft. Convinced the Japanese have a secret airbase hidden in the alfalfa fields of Pomona, Maddox let Birkhead and Donna borrow a plane, after Birkhead offered to go on a reconnaissance flight in an attempt to locate the fictional Pomona airfield. Donna, aroused by at last being up in an airplane, eagerly began to ravish the nervous Birkhead during the flight.

Birkhead and Donna, still in the throes of passion, flied over L.A., where anti-aircraft batteries opened fire causing the Battle of Los Angeles. Wild Bill Kelso pursued Birkhead's plane and shot it down, causing it to crash into the La Brea Tar Pits. Where him and Donna had sex and then they were rescued by an US Army patrol and arrested.

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