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Old 10th January 2018, 00:20
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Re: Michael Arooth, B-17 gunner ace

Hello,

And Elmer Bendiner's character assessment (assassination?) of Michael Arooth:

"Our tail gunner was a saw-toothed, swarthy little man, a street-wise Ulysses, cunning and winning. Mike could have been a trader in a Moroccan bazaar or a taxi driver with a detailed guide to the whims of every passenger's flickering heart and mind. He was a superb gunner, but if he had not been he would have made me think he was."

Bendiner also has a few "pen-portraits" of the other members of his crew/commanders.

See:
The Fall Of Fortresses A Personal Account of one of the Most Daring - and Deadly - Air Battles of the Second World War.
Bendiner,Elmer
London:Souvenir Press,1981.
pp.43-53

Col.

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