Mitchell Flint, US aviator who helped found Israeli Air Force, dies at 94
by By Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times
Sep 26, 2017
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - He flew bombing missions for the U.S. during World War II and then came back to America to study law.
But the escalating conflict between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbors had already gotten under Mitchell Flint's skin.
"I'm Jewish, Israel desperately needed fighter pilots, so I thought I could perhaps do something to sustain the state," he said years later in an interview with the Los Angeles Times of Israel.
To get around a law that prohibited
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