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Louis Lenart (April 24, 1921 – July 20, 2015) was a Hungarian-born American-Israeli fighter pilot. [1] His exploits during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War were documented in the 2015 documentary film A Wing and a Prayer. [2]
Jun 27, 2010 · Lenart flew an F4U Corsair in the battle of Okinawa and took part in numerous attacks on the Japanese mainland.
- Tom Tugend
Jul 26, 2023 · Captain Lou Lenart was one of the non-Israeli “Machalniks” who risked their lives by quietly volunteering to start the Israeli Air Force.
Lou Lenart was an outstanding Machalnik. On 29th May 1948 he led the attack by four Avia S-199s against the Egyptian Army. They dropped their bombs and fired their cannons in the teeth of withering 37mm anti-aircraft fire from the Egyptians, and they stopped the advance of the Egyptian forces 16 miles from Tel Aviv.
Lou had always played hard to get: When Al recruited him, when the FBI tailed him and when the ’48 operation took him back to Eastern Europe, where he grew up.
Jul 22, 2015 · Lenart, hailed in Israeli headlines as “the man who saved Tel Aviv,” died Monday at his home in Ra’anana, Israel. He was 94. He had congestive heart failure, his Los Angeles publicist ...
May 29, 2024 · Lou Lenart, a hero much bigger than any screen. Here was a man to whom Israel and the Jewish people owe so much yet who received so little recognition in return. A soldier whose example of valor and selflessness is followed, however unknowingly, by the myriad Israelis defending our country today.
