EDDIE RICKENBACKER cheated death so many times in so many circumstances that he came to believe he was divinely blessed.
Before WW1 he survived being tossed from his cartwheeling racing car on more than one occasion. In the war, flying more combat missions than any other US pilot, he not only eluded enemy bullets and shells but also survived when the fabric ripped from his plane’s wing in a dive during a dogfight. In 1941 he suffered horrendous injuries when one of his airliners crashed into woods in appalling weather,
