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She’s standing on the side of a dirt road. Her clothes are torn. Her face is bruised. Her hair is matted, filthy, falling in clumps. She is not armed. She is not a soldier. She is maybe 16. Maybe younger. And she is utterly alone.
They call her “The Lost German Girl.”
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This September 1862 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows Allan Pinkerton on horseback during the Battle of Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Before the outbreak of war, he had founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. In 1861, he famously foiled an alleged plot to assassinate president-elect Lincoln, and later served as the head of the Union Intelligence Service — the forerunner of the U.S. Secret Service.
They found him alone.
January 8th, 1943. Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. The chambermaid knocked. No answer. She let herself in and discovered the body of a man who had once dreamed of lighting up the entire planet. Nikola Tesla was dead. Eighty-six years old, broke, and virtually forgotten by the world he had helped shape.
To be in the ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress was to occupy one of the most vulnerable and claustrophobic positions in all of World War II aviation. The turret itself—a small, rotating sphere made of plexiglass and aluminum—was suspended beneath the belly of the aircraft, leaving the gunner exposed on nearly all sides. Once inside, the gunner had to curl into a fetal position, legs raised, knees bent, back arched, crammed around the twin .50 caliber machine guns. There was no room for a parachute; if the plane was hit or went down, escape was nearly impossible. It was cold, loud, and incredibly isolating—just the gunner, the sky, and the enemy.
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