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Subject: Fw: WW2 "Miracle" -- A GOOD READ !!!!!
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 03:30:16 GMT
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Thanks Rita !!!! "INSPIRING" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Passing ON...
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Subject: WW2 "Miracle"
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:06:44 -0500
This story is in Elmer Bendiner's book, "The Fall of
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Elmer Bendiner was a navigator in a B-17 during WW II. He tells this
story of a World War II bombing run over Kassel, Germany, and the
unexpected result of a direct hit on their gas tanks.
"Our B-17, the Tondelayo, was barraged by flak from Nazi antiaircraft
guns. That was not unusual, but on this particular occasion our gas
tanks were hit."
"Later, as I reflected on the miracle of a 20 millimeter shell
piercing the fuel tank without touching off an explosion, our pilot,
Bohn Fawkes, told me it was not quite that simple." On the morning
following the raid, Bohn had gone down to ask our crew chief for that
shell as a souvenir of unbelievable luck.
The crew chief told Bohn that not just one but 11 shells had been
found in the gas tanks. 11 unexploded shells where only one was
sufficient to blast us out of the sky. It was as if the sea had been
parted for us. A near-miracle, I thought. Even after 35 years, so
awesome an event leaves me shaken, especially after I heard the rest
of the story from Bohn.
He was told that the shells had been sent to the armorers to be
defused. The armorers told him that Intelligence had picked them up.
They could not say why at the time, but Bohn eventually sought out the
answer. "Apparently when the armorers opened each of those shells,
they found no explosive charge. They were as clean as a whistle and
just as harmless."
Empty? Not all of them! One contained a carefully rolled piece of
paper. On it was a scrawl in Czech The Intelligence people scoured
our base for a man who could read Czech. Eventually they found one to
decipher the note. Translated, the note read:
"This is all we can do for you now… using Jewish slave labor is never
a good idea."
