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Michael Aruth was a 138-pound high school dropout from Massachusetts who became America's highest-scoring aerial gunner with 17 confirmed kills. In 1943, when bomber losses reached catastrophic levels and standard gunnery doctrine was failing, this 23-year-old tail gunner did something revolutionary—he ignored everything the experts taught him. While military doctrine demanded firing at 400-600 yards, Aruth opened fire at 900 yards, disrupting German fighter attacks before they began. His aggressive early engagement technique was considered wasteful and wrong by training command, but it saved approximately 750 American lives. This is the forgotten story of how one man's willingness to break the rules during World War II changed aerial combat doctrine forever and became a legend among the crews of the Eighth Air Force.


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