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Byline: HILDEGARD SCHEIBNER hilde.scheibner@heraldtribune.com
SARASOTA -- Milton Rubenfeld, a veteran of Britain's Royal Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Forces who also helped form the Israeli Air Force, died Feb. 21, 2004, of cancer. He was 84.
"My father didn't like to talk about his many accomplishments," said his son, Paul Reubens of Los Angeles, an actor who created and played the character Pee-wee Herman.
"In 1948, he and a small group of Americans helped establish the state of Israel and form the Israeli Air Force. Israel honored him for his heroism and leadership and his plane was preserved and displayed outside the airport in Tel Aviv …