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There is a circulating e-rumor to the effect that as an old man, Rickenbacker fed bucketsful of shrimp to the gulls every Friday night in gratitude for the one gull that helped save his and his fellow airmen's lives after they crashed their plane in the Pacific Ocean during WWII. After researching his biography online, I can find no mention of this except as attached to said e-rumor. According to the website Truthorfiction.com, the origin of this story can be traced to an inspirational religious book written by Max Lucado entitled "In the Eye of the Storm." The rumour is probably false and was probably only created to give more inspirational force to Lucado's book. Rickenbacker's own autobiography gives no mention of it, and from the type of personality Rickenbacker had (practical, results oriented, unsentimental), it is difficult to imagine him indulging in such a way.

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