One Night in 1944 an American Military pilot was flying over England when he turned around in his cockpit and looked at this panel of switches that was right behind him and after looking for a particular switch he reached out and he was about to toggle it but he stopped because he knew what he was about to do Flipping The Switch would easily be the most dangerous thing he had ever done in his entire life but this was his duty he had to do it and so after taking a deep breath he flipped the switch and immediately chaos ensued and the course of American history would be drastically changed forever if you've never heard the story before and many people have not this is not nearly as welln as it should be then you are in for a huge reveal at the end but before we get into that story if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format then you've come to the right place because that's all we do and we upload once a week so if that's of interest to you please 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mission but Joe tried not to think about that as he walked towards the hanger instead he tried to think about the reason he was here in the first place the reason he had joined the military and that was to defeat the Nazis and what he and his co-pilot were about to do operation Aphrodite was going to play a huge role in defeating the Nazis so this was about 5 years into World War II and at this point the Nazis were actually losing however it was making them more dangerous not less because were becoming very very desperate and so they were launching all these outrageous attacks basically because they had nothing to lose and one horrible thing the Nazis were doing at this time were dropping these things called Vengeance weapons Hitler called them Vengeance weapons they were basically these huge bombs that the Nazis would drop arbitrarily across the United Kingdom on major population centers and by this point in the war these Vengeance weapons had killed over 5,000 civilians and at this exact moment like this night as Joe was walking towards the hangar the Nazis had a stash of Vengeance weapons aimed directly at London that was going to be their next Target and so the mission that Joe and his co-pilot Bud were going on operation Aphrodite was going to be to go out and destroy those Vengeance weapons to save London and as nervous as Joe was about this Mission and he was really nervous he was also very excited he actually had volunteered for this Mission when many other Pilots had done everything they could to stay away from this Mission and on top of that Joe actually had flown enough missions by this point in the war that he didn't need to fly anymore he could just go home but instead he volunteered for this Mission and a reason why Joe might have decided to do that has a lot to do with the family he was raised in so Joe came from a family that was very successful and accomplished and his father really pushed Joe and his younger brother to be the very best at whatever they were doing and to be very competitive with each other and so while Joe and his younger brother did love each other they also had a pretty intense rivalry and for a while Joe's father obviously favored Joe I mean Joe was the favorite Child and you know his father would always say Joe's going to be the president someday he's so talented but after the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II both Joe and his younger brother joined the military and pretty early on in the war Joe's younger brother got an award for heroism he had basically saved his platoon of men and he won all these Awards and he was all over the news and pretty quickly after that Joe felt like he fell out of favor with his dad that his dad kind of looked at the younger brother as being the favorite Child now and so Joe really started to feel insecure and wanted to prove himself really to his dad and so when operation Aphrodite came up Joe volunteered for it really because he wanted to be a hero he wanted to show his dad that he too could do something huge and change the course of history and he would change the course of history but not in the way he expected and so Joe continued to smoke a cigarette and hustled across the base towards the hanger and as he did he found him self kind of speeding up like he just wanted to get over there and get started Joe's commanders had given him a special code he would call out over the radio if this mission was successful it was Spade flush that's what he'd say over the radio and so as Joe hustled towards the hanger he imagined how incredible it was going to be to yell out Spade flush over the radio I mean it was only like 30 minutes away from that moment this was a short Mission and so finally Joe reached the hanger and he looked up to the sky one more time to make sure the weather looks solid because actually they had tried to launch operation Aphrodite a couple of days earlier but it had been canceled because of fog but Joe looked around and the weather looked good and so he knew it was going to be a go so he flipped his cigarette butt and stepped into the hanger inside this hanger was this massive big open space and in the center of the hanger on the floor was this huge plane called a B24 Liberator this was of course Joe's plane for the night and so Joe immediately began walking towards the plane to check it out now this particular type of plane was the type of plane Joe had been flying for the past 3 years I mean he'd flown many combat missions in this type of aircraft so he was very familiar with it but this particular B24 was unlike any of the other b-24s Joe had ever flown in fact this aircraft was so unique it was unlike any aircraft that any pilot in the American Military had ever flown I mean this was really a one of one and so as Joe walked around the outside of this plane he began to notice some of these unique modifications that the mechanics had made to this aircraft the most noticeable modification was actually the cockpit now normally the cockpit had all these windows basically all around it so the pilot could look in any direction and see what was going on but obviously they needed to be protected from the elements but this B24 had all the glass removed except for one pane of glass basically right in front of where Joe would be staring just like a single windshield and so it's almost like it was a convertible aircraft where it was all open air in the cockpit and the reason for this change is because Joe and his co-pilot during the course of this top secret mission operation Aphrodite they would have to jump out and parachute to the ground and so by having this all open it would allow them to do that much easier and then another big modification to the B24 is the guns that were normally located on the outside of the aircraft were gone and they were replaced by broomsticks painted black to look like guns at a distance but the visible changes to this particular B24 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Joe had all four propellers spinning on the aircraft and so he released the brake and began taxing to the runway and as they bumped along Joe and Bud became really aware of just how heavy this aircraft was from all the explosives I mean every bump this plane is lurching up and down and really creaking and making lots of noises I mean this was sketchy finally Joe went Full Speed Ahead and he and Joe went tearing down the runway and at some point the plane did get lift and it took off into the air and then just up ahead of him were six other planes that had just taken off moments before who were going to escort Joe and Bud to their Target area once Joe got the plane to its cruising altitude he and Bud kind of relaxed for a second and began preparing themselves for what was going to happen next they had about 15 minutes of just kind of casual flying before the real work of this Mission began the Vengeance weapons that Joe and Bud were going out to destroy as part of operation Aphrodite were located about 120 Mi South just outside of this little town in the very Northern tip of France but destroying these weapons would not be as simple as just Joe and Bud flying over top and releasing all their explosives and flying back home because the Nazis had buried these Vengeance weapons deep inside the hills in this town in northern France and so regular bombs wouldn't touch these Vengeance weapons they had to do it a different way and the way they were going to do it was Joe and Bud were going to fly their plane directly into the hills and the way they would do this is they would fly their plane as close to the Target area as possible at which point one of the other Pilots that were in the escort planes would take remote control of the B24 flying bomb and then once they had remote control Joe and Bud who no longer needed to do anything they would jump out and parachute to the ground and then the pilot who was remotely flying this now vacant B24 flying bomb they would just set it on autopilot to crash into the hills at around 6:15 p. m.