A friend sent this to us...

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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the
South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50
caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before
being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo
at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
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Apocryphal but silly enough to be true. Then again there were a bunch of
such this in the group he sent, and some were questionable.


...Alex.
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