It means they died. In ww2 untrained pilots would sometimes crash over farmland. The government would pay the farmers exorbitant prices as compensation, with military men arguing that the compensation was so high that they may as well have bought the whole farm. Hence the saying.
Can you explain your username please?
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It means they died. In ww2 untrained pilots would sometimes crash over farmland. The government would pay the farmers exorbitant prices as compensation, with military men arguing that the compensation was so high that they may as well have bought the whole farm. Hence the saying.
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Oh. Wasn't expecting it to be such a sad one.
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Dick swinging has more a literal meaning from where I'm from.