29 min

Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown the airing cupboard's extraordinary stories of ordinary people

    • Personal Journals

This story is about the skies over Germany on a cold 20th of December 1943, about a German Ace pilot, an American bomber commander,  and an act of mercy that turned two ennemies into brothers...

If you want to know more about this story, you can read the book:
A Higher Call by Adam Makos and Larry Alexander

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Music: 
Hot October by Wood Spider
from Free Music Archives
Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

 and
 
 Convergence, Break Through and Horses by The Pictures of the Floating World
 From Free Music Archives
 Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

 and
Smoldering, Summer Days, Universe in Hands and November by Kai Engel
 from Free Music Archives
 Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
and
The Bridge by David Hilowitz
 From Free Music Archives
 Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial- 4.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
 
 
Sounds:
 
B17.wav by Relwin
From Free Sounds 
Copyright CC BY 4.0 DEED
Attribution 4.0 International
 
Messerschmitt Bf 109 Startup and Taxiing by FlighttoflyPhoto
From Free Sounds
Attribution NonCommercial 3.0
 
Spitfires and Bf-109 Flyby by FlighttoflyPhoto
From Free Sounds
Attribution NonCommercial 3.0
 
Sources:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8EkmyoG83Q
https://historycollection.com/mercy-war-german-pilot-spared-crippled-b-17-wounded-crew-two-pilots-became-friends-war/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/12/20/1264068/-70-years-ago-today-two-honorable-men-met
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Stigler
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/valor-when-an-enemy-was-a-friend/
https://chivalrytoday.com/chivalry-air/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident

This story is about the skies over Germany on a cold 20th of December 1943, about a German Ace pilot, an American bomber commander,  and an act of mercy that turned two ennemies into brothers...

If you want to know more about this story, you can read the book:
A Higher Call by Adam Makos and Larry Alexander

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Music: 
Hot October by Wood Spider
from Free Music Archives
Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

 and
 
 Convergence, Break Through and Horses by The Pictures of the Floating World
 From Free Music Archives
 Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

 and
Smoldering, Summer Days, Universe in Hands and November by Kai Engel
 from Free Music Archives
 Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
and
The Bridge by David Hilowitz
 From Free Music Archives
 Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial- 4.0 United States
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
 
 
Sounds:
 
B17.wav by Relwin
From Free Sounds 
Copyright CC BY 4.0 DEED
Attribution 4.0 International
 
Messerschmitt Bf 109 Startup and Taxiing by FlighttoflyPhoto
From Free Sounds
Attribution NonCommercial 3.0
 
Spitfires and Bf-109 Flyby by FlighttoflyPhoto
From Free Sounds
Attribution NonCommercial 3.0
 
Sources:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8EkmyoG83Q
https://historycollection.com/mercy-war-german-pilot-spared-crippled-b-17-wounded-crew-two-pilots-became-friends-war/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/12/20/1264068/-70-years-ago-today-two-honorable-men-met
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Stigler
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/valor-when-an-enemy-was-a-friend/
https://chivalrytoday.com/chivalry-air/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident

29 min