Major Barry Goldwater bombs Tokyo! Only in MacArthur's Luck!

Barry Goldwater had an admirable military career during the Second World War, from participating in the only serious attempt to ferry P-47 fighter planes across the Atlantic with extra fuel tanks, to his work in the Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India Theater.

But Goldwater had--like most other pilots--always had the unfulfilled ambition to be a combat pilot.

I wondered about how that might have come to pass, and in MacArthur's Luck I decided to take a stab at it, through the intervention of General Curtis LeMay and the slight modification of an adventure that actually figured into Goldwater's memoirs--his attempt to keep an American transport plane out of the hands of British staff officers.

Of course, never being satisfied to just tinker around the edges, I also teamed up Goldwater with the "Hebrew Hammer" of Major League Baseball's Hank Greenberg for a co-pilot, and we later discover that ... but that's not for MacArthur's Luck, that's for Stalin's Wager.

For the moment, take a $0.99 chance on MacArthur's Luck to find out what Goldwater might have felt and thought had he participated in the first fire-bombing of Tokyo. I suspect the answer will surprise you.

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