
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 U.S. 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. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown.

December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. “Oh, it’s a good one!”-Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead.“A remarkable story.worth retelling and celebrating.”-USA Today.

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