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A B-17 Flying Fortress is burning at 20,000 feet over the English Channel on its very first combat mission to Saint-Nazaire…

Crewmen bail out into freezing air.
A gunner is bleeding to death.
A wall of fire cuts off the cockpit.
German fighters are still attacking.

By all logic, the bomber should fall out of the sky.

But one man refuses to abandon it.

Staff Sergeant Maynard “Snuffy” Smith — a rookie nobody wanted to fly with — stays behind as ammunition explodes around him. For 90 minutes, he fights fire with his bare hands, drags wounded crewmen to safety, and keeps the aircraft flying against all odds.

What happened next earned him the Medal of Honor…
Yet when the Secretary of War arrived to present it, they couldn’t even find him — because he was in the kitchen, peeling potatoes.

This is one of the most incredible true stories of World War II aviation — a moment when courage, endurance, and sheer willpower saved lives in the sky.

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