Sometimes when you follow your heart, you change history

That is what happened to United States Marine pilot Lou Lenart. He returned from World War II and was starting to have a civilian life, luxuriating in Hollywood, going to the clubs. Then at the end of 1947, the UN announced that it would recognize the nation of Israel as a homeland for the Jews. Immediately, the leaders of five Arab nations announced they would invade Israel and exterminate every Jew. Lou’s heart told him that he could not stay there while the Jewish people in Israel were about to be annihilated, in a new holocaust planned by the armies of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Eygpt and Iraq.

So he bought an old plane, rounded up a little team, and went over there, and wound up flying the first mission of the Israel Air Force. A mission that changed history.