At age 91, Max "Pete" Patrisek is still high on the Martin B-26 Marauder. In November 1944, he was at the controls over Italy when his twin-engine bomber was hit just after bomb release. A German 88-mm flak round ripped upward through the aft fuselage and "exploded, the blast killing his tail gunner and mangling the airplane's rudder and elevators.
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