![]() ![]() It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. ![]() ![]() What happened next would defy imagination and later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler-and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. It is often said that war is hell - and it is - however, this story reveals how the human spirit can shine in the darkest. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War IIĭecember, 1943: A badly damaged American B-17 bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. ![]()
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