GREEN LIGHT TOURNEY

[Extraordinarius]

Interestingly but not oddly, all the people I have personally known who are strong believers in 'lucky' as a separate quality of the individual like 'healthy' or 'beautiful' have been in combat. Otto Carius tells in his memoirs the story of how smoking saved his life. He had just lit up and had his head out when his loader asked for a light. Carius leaned down and held out his cigarette, and at that moment a Soviet 85mm shot took the hatch off. Dmitriy Loza
describes a strafing attack by German aircraft in which the only casualty was a man killed inside a tank with all the hatches closed. A machinegun round went down the tank's main gun barrel and through the open breech.