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By CAROLYN BOWDEN

SOMETIMES, IT’S NOT REALLY JUST LUCK: Elmer Bendiner was a navigator in a B during WWll.

He tells the following 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, 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 shell but 11, had been found in the gas tanks. 11 unexploded shells where only one was sufficient to blast us out of the sky.

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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 our armorers to be defused. The armorers told him that our Intelligence Unit 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.

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They were as clean as a whistle and just as harmless.”

EMPTY? Not all of them! One shell 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.”

NOTE: This account was written in a book by Elmer Bendiner called “The Fall of Fortresses.”

MYSTERY SOLVED!

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“A member of the Czech underground, working in a Nazi munitions factory, had deliberately omitted the explosives in at least 11 of the shells on his assembly line. He slipped the note into one of the shells, hoping that someone who benefited from his efforts might discover why.

That same person may have died wondering if the quiet work he was doing to subvert the enemy war machine would ever make any difference to the outcome of the war.

A Flying Fortress crew had him to thank for their lives.”

(Written by Charles R. Swindoll in SIMPLE FAITH.)



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