Скачать или смотреть How One Sergeant's "Useless" Wiring Fix Saved 300 Bombers from Crashing on Takeoff

They called it "The Gremlin." A ghost in the machine that struck without warning. At the critical moment of takeoff, laden with fuel and bombs, a B-17's electrical system would die for 3 terrifying seconds. Pilots flew blind, disoriented, inches from catastrophe. The top brass blamed pilot error. But one man knew the truth.

This is the untold story of Technical Sergeant Walter "Wally" Jenkins, a Kansas mechanic who discovered a fatal flaw in the B-17's design: a single wire, vibrating against a bare bolt, could short out the entire aircraft. His superiors dismissed him. The engineers called his theory "useless." But he was the only one standing between the 8th Air Force and a hidden enemy that was killing them before they even reached the enemy.

Discover how a ten-cent rubber grommet and one man's stubborn obsession prevented one of the greatest self-inflicted disasters of World War II and saved the lives of thousands of airmen.

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