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☆ Charlie Munger first met Warren Buffett in 1959. Here's how the lawyer became an investing legend.
  + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Charlie Munger died at the age of 99 on Tuesday. The Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman became an investor after meeting Warren Buffett at a dinner party. AdvertisementCharlie Munger, the vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett's righthand man, died at the age of 99 on Tuesday. "Berkshire Hathaway could not have been built to its present status without Charlie's inspiration, wisdom and participation," Buffett said in a press release. Munger was a successful lawyer before Buffett convinced him to try out finance, and then to join Berkshire Hathaway in 1978.
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☆ Philip Schlamberg: Final US combat death of World War II was Jewish teen in Japan
  + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Brad Lendon | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +12 min
“The Last Fighter Pilot” says when the service saw those scores, Schlamberg was offered his pick of jobs and chose to be a fighter pilot. During that trip, he saw Japanese war veterans up close and felt a kinship, he said. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesFitting endingsYellin died in December 2017, shortly after “The Last Fighter Pilot” was published. In the foreword to “The Last Fighter Pilot,” Yellin recounted how World War II’s end was fitting for the times. “And that the final combat life in the defense of freedom would be laid down by a teenage Jewish fighter pilot who had not yet learned to even drive a car.”
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☆ As US planes bombed Japan in World War II, the Japanese sent balloons across the ocean to try to set the US on fire
  + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
During World War II, Japan used balloons to strike the US as US troops advanced across the Pacific. They were the first and only victims of a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb, and the only Americans killed by enemy action in the continental US during the war. A complex weapon with a simple missionAn exploding fuse releases a sandbag from a "chandelier" on a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb. A strange legacyA Japanese Fu-Go balloon inflated for testing at a California base after it was recovered in Alturas, California, on January 10, 1945. Since it traveled over 5,000 miles, the Fu-Go balloon is the first weapon system ever to have intercontinental range.
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