On this day, 31 December 1969, Dwight and Karl Armstrong stole a twin engined Cessna plane from an airport outside Madison, Wisconsin, flew 53 miles north and dropped three bombs on the Badger Army Ammunition Plant in protest against the Vietnam War. The brothers’ uncle had previously worked at the plant and had been killed in a workplace accident. The bombs failed to explode. But the attack was one of many violent anti-war acts which rocked the US as the Vietnam War continued.
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