• Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown

  • Dec 19 2023
  • Length: 29 mins
  • Podcast

Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown

  • Summary


  • 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

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